The notice requirement provided for the open public meetings law has been satisfied. Notice properly given said notice having been transmitted to the Courier News on Tuesday, January 6, 2025, as well as posting on the city's website. Clerk, can we have a roll call?
Council members Briggs Jones, present. Cherry, present. Graham, present. McCrae, present. Wyatt present. Vice President Cessums present. Council President Haday present. All members present Cororum. Okay. Thank you. Can please rise for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing
for the invocation. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Humbly we ask God, the giver of peace
and the lover of charity, to give the entire family of nations true agreement with his will, to grant the light of his spirit on all those who work for justice and peace. Amen. Amen. Okay. May I have a motion to approve the minutes of our last meeting, September
8th? So move. Second. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. I any opposition or abstensions? Okay, the um meeting minutes have been approved. Uh first moving to discussion items. Uh we have uh want to discuss the
watershed improvement plan for Greenbrook and Cedarbrook. Who's taking that? Director, the floor is yours. Yes. Uh good evening, Council President Council on the May. This is regarding the SH improvement
plan in addition to the uh storm water digital mapping. We have engineering here give us a presentation regarding everything we need to do. This is all mandatory by the NJ D. talking about it has to be done by
by January of 26. So I'm going to have some non come give a presentation on everything being done with as it relates to digital mapping and the watershed improvement plan. Come forward. All right,
come forward. The floor is yours. Awesome. Can everyone hear me? Good evening. My name is Chris Peron. Uh I'm in the engineering department of Penoni Associates and we're here to talk about the MS4 tier A permit which
includes the watershed improvement plan. Uh and if you have a packet, it's all the slides if you want to follow along. So this is our first public information session. We're required to have this semianually. So this will be something that continues throughout the year and
throughout till 2027. If people have questions or things want to move on, you know, we can talk about this at other meetings. So, next slide. So, why are we preparing a watershed improvement plan? Well, in
short, uh it's required from all municipalities in New Jersey. All municipalities are now considered tier A. Um used to be in 2017 that only a large majority of the municipalities were tier A. Um but due to you know
regulation increase all municipalities have been upgraded to tier A. So they all have to they all have to file with these requirements. So we're going to talk about what the requirements are and how we're going to execute this plan. Next slide.
So this started way back in 1972 with the Clean Water Act. Um the idea of the Clean Water Act was to improve and maintain clean water shed areas throughout the state and throughout the country. Um as you could see uh they've
updated the plans regularly. Uh and the last timeline there is 2023 which is the start of this MS4 tier A permit that I'm going to be talking about today. Um so this TA started in 2023 and its first
requirement is the mapping which is required at the end of this year or the start of 2026. Next slide please. So what's the problem? So 90% of New Jersey's waterways are considered impaired which is very very
high and 60% is attributed to pollutants in storm water runoff. Um, and as we also know that a lot of severe storms are causing increasingly frequent flooding. Something else that we would like to address with this permit. Next
slide. And like we said before, all municipalities in the state of New Jersey are required to do this. So we're just being compliant with the whole state. Next slide. So what's a watershed? So we're talking about the
wershed improvement plan. The first step is knowing what the wershed is. So wershed in short, it's an area of land their rainwater will hit and the all the all the water will congreate into one point usually in a stream like the green
brook or the ashbrook or other streams in the area. So that's just an area that drains to a certain point. So that's the first part. Next slide. How are we going to execute this plan? Well, it all starts with data collection. Uh if you may have seen a
lot of people in your town walking around in reflective vests, opening manholes and inspecting outfalls uh throughout the town, that's us getting a inventory of all of the storm water infrastructure within Planefield. That's step one. We have to create that map and
we have to know where everything is and where everything goes. The second part is actually creating the map. So once we have all of our points, we have to create a map that displays basically all of the infrastructure throughout Planefield. And then at the end of this
year when the map is finished, we begin the data analysis phase which essentially is the plan being come up with based on what we find in the field. Next slide. So we've opened a lot of storm water
manholes which are all over the streets. We've looked at outfalls which are basically discharge to the streams and we've analyzed the streams as well. Next slide. So what does the map look like? So you
can see a picture of playing fields in red there and a lot of dots and those dots represent one of the storm water infrastructure which are inlets which is just those grates on the sides of the roads on the curbs that accept water
from the street. So that's one element of the features that we're looking at. So that's just one small part of everything. Next slide. What storm water features do we need to get? There's a lot. In short, there are
one, two, three, four. There's like 10 different things that need to be gathered here. Outfalls are what drain to the streams. There's 46 in planefield. We have discharge points, interconnections, inlets, manholes, and we have to know where everything goes,
which is the conveyance, pump stations, facilities, and other maintenance operations. So, we have to get all of this information into one map. Next slide. Not only do we have to know the locations of all of these features, but we have to know certain attributes about
them. There's a ton of things that need to be known about every single attribute and this is all put into the map and this is all used for the data analysis. Next slide. So what's the goal of all this? The goal is to obviously reduce pollution.
Pollution is a big problem. As I said, 90% of waterways are impaired in the state of New Jersey. uh and our goal is to reduce that to the best of our ability. Um that starts with lowering the total maximum daily loads which is
part of the Clean Water Act of 1972 which basically classifies certain pollutants that we are specifically targeting. In addition, we're looking to improve water quality from waters listed at as
impaired, which is a different form of pollution. And lastly, obviously, if we can reduce flooding during the course of this permit, we would like to do that as well. Next slide. So, this is a map of Planefield and we
have the total maximum daily loads, which is different categories of pollution. You can see a lot of purple there. total suspended solids, fecal caulifform over on the north eastern side of Planefield. And you can see that
the stream is highlighted in blue. And you can see that we have impaired waterways uh that are noted in blue. Some of it is overlapping with the northwestern line of Planefield. That's the green brook. It's also blue. It's
hard to see. It's bordering with the the town border. Next slide. And here we have different wersheds. So I mentioned that we're looking at improving the wersheds. There are six wersheds that surround plane fields. So
they all have their own areas that drain. So you can see that each polygon there has its own watershed that's associated with different impairments. You can see in the chart there's different TMDLs and different impairments for each of them. We have to
look at all of them. Next slide. So what's the map going to be used for? So the map is going to be used to understand the conveyance where water goes, where the pollution is coming from and how we're going to address it. In short, next slide.
Now we have the wershed improvement plan and there's a few phases for it. Obviously the first phase which is going to be completed by the end of this year is the mapping. We've been in the town. We've been looking at mapping all of the locations and grabbing all the attributes and all of that is step one
and the goal is we have to finish it by the end of the year which we're on track for. Over the course of next year we have to figure out what exactly we're going to do to fix it. So that's up until 2027 and then by December of 2027 that plan
will be finalized and we will be begin executing that plan. Next slide. So here's just a timeline of that. In short, 2026 is the mapping. Next slide.
2027 is the actual plan. Um, and it's coming up with the plan and figuring out what exactly we're going to do to address all of the concerns for all of the wersheds in that year. And then the last slide is finalizing coming up with
the final plan that's going to be executed and submitted as the permit requirement for Planefield. And then that will be wrapped up nicely for all legal purposes and um being compliant with the NJ.
Next slide. And like I said, we have these public information uh sessions semianually to keep the mun municipality uh involved throughout and so that they know what's going on. It's also part of the permit to update the city's website so that
they have access to all of the information that we are gathering and then they can comment and have you know input because obviously it's your down you want to know what's going on. Um so that's it. Next slide.
Do we have any questions for the MS4 permit or the watershed improvement plan? No. Awesome. Thank you guys. Thank you. Before you before you sit down, um you mentioned uh in passing that this
plan could help with flooding. Uh can you talk about that as a benefit to this entire plan? Yes. So part of the mapping is understanding where everything is. So for instance, if there's a certain part of town that has
more flooding than others, that can be looked at uh on the map and say, okay, if we have flooding in X part of town and there's certain number of inlets that accept water in that area, we might find that hey, we need to increase uh
the capacity in that area or um you know, figure out why the water is being backed up and filling up that portion of town. Um, that's one of the things. Maintenance is a big part of flooding as
well. So, not only did we capture where those manholes are, but those manholes can also be inspected to say, "Hey, we have too much debris or other um things backing up the system." Um, that could be you, you know, used to address
flooding as well. Um, but basically once you know what's underground, which is a big part of, you know, flooding in general, then you can address concerns with, hey, we don't have enough capacity in a certain area and here's why. Okay. Any other council members have
questions? Council President. Sean. Uh, yes. So, in your experience, have you dealt with a municipality? Say we in plane we have many flood zones here and that flood insurance is very expensive for our residents. So has there been
cases where you were able to redirect the water because I know that you said you gather the information and say okay this is the inlets on the other side of that has there ever been an experience where you said okay we redirected this is no longer a flood zone in this area.
Personally I haven't um we have members of our team that have done that before. Yeah. Um a lot of it uh in particular has been uh either maintenance or we find that there's so much area that drains to a certain uh pipe and that
pipe could be upsc upscaled to a larger size things that would have to be planned out for construction. Um that's usually how things go unfortunately. But you at least get to find out why, what's causing the problem and then you can address it later or you can address it
with grants or the permit, you know, things like that. Okay, just one more question. Will the um after you finish the mapping, will the city have it in GIS form? Yes, it's requirement to submit it to the NJDP. It can also be sent to the city. Yeah. All right.
Thank you. Anyone else? When was the last time a study like this was done in playing field? Do you know, Derek? Uh, that's something we could get back to you on. Been a long time. Um, probably. Yeah.
All right. Thank you for your report. Awesome. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Nothing else from administration. Uh so we will move to consideration of public hearing. Second reading and final passage. Uh we have ordinances
bond 1285 through bond 1288 and MC 202534 through MC 202537 which are scheduled for public hearing and final passage for the regular meeting as advertised. Uh we now move on to resolutions. Uh first with the
legislative body uh items R 360 to R 366-25. Do we have consensus to add these items to the voting meeting? So move second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposition or abstensions? Okay.
Those shall be added. Uh would the business administrator present the BA items? Yes. Thank you, council president. Uh we have three items for consideration this evening. The first is a recognition of breast cancer awareness month this
month. The second one is advice and consent for an appointment to the planning board. This is an alternate um an alternate position and it's been vacant for some time. And finally, we have a resolution in support of the city to submit a grant to DCA department of
the of uh recreational opportunities for individuals with disabilities. This is a grant for integrated recreation for people with disabilities and we plan to use it for inclusive aquatics programs for families who have a member with the disability.
um family bowling league for families that have a child with a disability and a canoe trip. So those are our three items. Okay. Questions from council members? Hearing none. Do we have consensus to
add these items to the voting meeting? Yes. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposition or abstensions? Okay. That should be add uh added. Okay. Okay, next the department of finance floor is yours.
Good afternoon all. I have five items, five resolutions for your approval and authorization. First one R370-25 um is resolution authorizing approval to amend
the budget by inserting seven items of revenue and appropriation. And these items are bulletproof vest for 2022 and 2023. 2025
drive sober or get pulled over for $7,000. 2026 Wick 2026 pedestrian safety grant. um 2025 infrastructure and municipal aid grant and sir consumer
protection and education fund grant which is very similar to the 25,000 that was added at the meeting last month. Second item is 371-25 resolution authorizing the approval to
cancel taxes 2025 and 2026 totaling $9,84061. This is for a deed that was filed in error. This property is tax exempt. It's um the toddler's learning center on East Front Street. And this was filed in
error and is now has now been corrected. Resolution number 372-25 resolution authorizing tax refunds on properties per the tax schedule. This is for duplicate payments
and um overpayments. And then resolution 373-25, a resolution authorizing the city of Planefield to conduct an electronic tax sale. We have been doing this for the last two years and this provides the
city with a greater pool of potential lean buyers. And resolution 374-25 is resolution authorizing the approval to cancel taxes in the amount of $1,675.36. This is due to a 100% disabled veteran.
Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Okay. Do we have consensus to add these items to the voting meeting? Yes. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposition or abstensions? Okay. Those shall be added. Okay. The
Department of Public Public Works director, floor is yours. Yes. Good evening, Mr. Council President, members of council. Uh, Department of Public Works has four resolutions to present. Resolution R 37525 authorizing approval of the city of
Planefield to accept the grant funded storm water management study provided by New Jersey Institute of Technology. Uh, and I just want to commend uh our OEM coordinator Paththea for helping get this this grant funding. This is going to be something that's going to help out
the city of Planefield quite a bit in terms of cameras that are installed across the city to look at flooding flooding areas. So, it's this a big thing for us and there's no cost to the city of Planefield. Uh resolution 37625 authorize the city of Plane and accept
an application the amount of 1,500,000 uh from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. appointing will go for detention basel assistance for that. Uh resolution 37725 authorizing change order to to enter
prize in the amount $149,73. This was for extra work that had to be done over at the splash park. Uh resolution 37825 authoriz county co-op for milling paving of summer avenue and Filmore Avenue and
amount not to exceed $270,22. You have any questions? Any questions from council members? Mr. President, I have a question. Go right ahead. Councilwoman Cherry. R 375 R375-25. You talked about monitoring. Could you talk a little bit more about that?
Yes. This this NGIT, they have environment to engineers and students that go out. They're putting cameras on poles in various areas. is like as a city that we have cameras on poles of areas that consider low line areas and flooding areas to see the impact of what
goes on there to see what damage can be done to see what action that can be taken to help those areas and that's what this these cameras will do. They're just going to get a video of everything's going on when we get heavy rain and whatever it is and putting to see what the areas look like so we can see what areas need more attention and
and this is at no cost to the city of Planefield. Is there like a measurement that the cam Yeah, the cameras will see just how whatever's out there, how much water is out the query to tell us how much flooding is there. So we can look at area as a troubled area to see how we can try to address it.
Great. Thank you for R376-25. What is the total cost of the project for Bill Campbell? Well, when we did everything, what the assessment we had came like $4 million to do things that we want to do. Thank you, Council Vice President. Uh, yeah. Thank
you, Council President. Director, as a followup to Councilwoman Cher's question, can you talk a little bit how will those cameras be activated? Are they um, you know, will they know when it's raining? Like, how will they be activated? And who will be monitoring
them? Will they be monitored 24/7? Is there a turn on, turn off switch? And how will that information be shared with the city? Can you just talk a little bit about that? Well, the cameras the cameras that are up there I I think the that's controlled through NGIT how they go about doing
that to monitor what's going on when flooding is coming our way or a major storm is coming uh everything I guess will come on uh based on from their controls they control that and I can follow up on all that for you.
Thank you. because I'm interested in how that information would be shared back to us because we would need to be considering you know what we would how we would be responding as a city for director coordinator would definitely make sure that information is given to everyone and monitored uh when
something happens because the video will be there so we can see all the after effects after the storm or if the amount of rain that we get and knock we didn't get much this year been a good test this past weekend but however we didn't get hit which is a great thing. Uh we could have really
slowed but the uh would provided on the cameras by the uh NJIT. And if I may add counselor, as was indicated, these cameras will be monitored by NJIT. Information will be
shared with our OEM coordinator, the Office of Emergency Management. follow follow Go right ahead, Councilman Grant. So once we um get a report that say there there are blocks in our town that
typically flood more than others, uh what would be the plan of execution? Would it just be just to block off the uh to to prevent traffic from going down the block or what's what's the solution
um once we have that information to you know not allow there to be flooding on the block anymore? Well, that would help us to respond in real time based on us having the camera information on the cameras so we can respond and be there and take the appropriate action once the
water recedes how we can address everything over there because what this is doing through NGIT is helping with flood mitigation to help us find additional funding to offset everything to help cause and improve everything in each area and that's what will happen with that. So those cameras will show us in real time everything that's going on
so we know that we can make sure that we can make sure that area is blocked off. keep picking up going into it. So it will help us that way. So So it isn't like they do anything to the road. It's just we just block off the road. Well, you block it off, right? But they
go over time flood mitigation funds. Okay. To offset to repair those basins and everything else see we can do to help reduce the amount of flooding in the area. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? I guess just a quick question. Sure. Uh will they will there be any
collaboration with Penoni NJIT and Penoni because the presentation we just heard sounds similar and everything we do will be everyone will work together on everything that we do collaboration but everything with NIT you know is free of charge everything we're doing what Poni is doing is just to make sure that we do the waterershed
and all the storm drains everything all the preventive measures are being taken because that's what the NJ wants done so we have to make sure we provide major maintenance on all ends that's what the purpose of that is for that this right here would just give us total flood mitigation assistance.
Okay. And I also know NJIT they have a program where they make rain gardens in cities. So can we inquire about that and see if they can add that as well? We're looking into everything. Whatever we can do to help out. Okay. Uh do we have consensus to add these items to the voting meeting?
Yes. Okay. Uh all those in favor say I. I I any opposition or abstensions? Okay. These items will be added to the voting meeting and to the consent agenda like the previous items. All right. Uh
the Department of Economic Development. Uh the floor is now yours. Good evening, council. I have items 379-25 through 389-25 tonight. So the first resolution is to
apply and accept a grant for not to exceed the amount of $2 million. This is for the center of excellence to continue our professional services as well as through construction.
The next resolution is also a grant. It's the PACE grant which stands for pre-apprenticeship in career education. This is a grant that would support our efforts with workforce development. It's from the Department of Labor. It would
be to apply and accept a grant for $3 million. This would support the advancement of the workforce development center that's over at the old south secondary youth center looking into career training as well as the
construction of the building as well as developing the program itself. The next one is also to apply and accept a grant. This is the greening of Union County.
This is a grant that we apply for every year. It is a 50% match grant where you get 15,000 from the county and the city matches it with another 15,000.
This enables us to purchase an additional 75 trees to plant throughout the city. The next resolution is to return to escrow. This is for a property where they no longer needed to pursue a
application grant through the zoning board. [Applause] The next resolution is related to 335 to 345 East Front Street. This is a request
for authorization to pursue a redevelopment study with this would be a non-condemnation redevelopment study for a property that's located where the old Bank of America across from the senior center.
The next resolution is to designate 229 to 231 Prescott's Place as a area in need of redevelopment and should you authorize it, we would move forward with a redevelopment plan.
This was an area that was originally brought to us by a resident that was interested in a small home ownership lot to develop the lot for affordable home for themselves. The next resolution is a condemnation
redevelopment study for five properties. These particular properties are all on the vacant and abandoned list. They have several tax leans against them and several crime incidences that have in
some cases the highest is in up to 800 crime incidents. The next resolution which is 386-25 I am requesting to pull from the agenda
386-25 please pull it from the agenda. The next resolution is looking for next two resolutions are looking for support for
1355 Planefield Avenue LLC. This is the location of the old Mac truck building. If you recall, we already have cannabis cultivation and manufacturing in this building. What
we're looking to do here, this was originally approved for cannabis cultivation and manufacturing all for one particular vendor for 132,000 square ft. That vendor is looking to subdivide
off a little over 41,000 square feet to continue cultivation and manufacturing. It will not take up any additional space. It will be an existing approved 132 32,000 square ft, but it does mean an
additional 1.1 million a year in revenue to the city based on our 2% ordinance. The next resolution is a second amendment to
um a property that's located over the city village property. This city village property, this is an amendment that for a project that has already been approved, but their financial institution requires additional language
to be included in their redevelopment agreement. And this is to add that language that is needed. Be any questions? Questions from council members? Yes. Um for 381-25,
uh just want to verify that it's the shade tree commission that determines where the trees are planted when we get the trees. Sure. It's a combination of the shade tree commission, but residents can also request trees. Okay. And how do they go
through the shade tree commission? So the request is made to the shade tree commission secretary. We have a certain period where we take requests and they go in the order of availability. Okay. And for 383 383-25,
this uh investigation is just to determine the property's best use. Yes. Okay. Those are my questions. Thank you. Council Vice President. Thank you, Council President. Um, with
regards to 387-25 and 388-25, can you talk about what what has been the the um revenue that the city has collected from the existing business that's there? because you mentioned that
if we allowed them to subdivide there'd be an additional 1.5 mil if I heard that correctly. 1.1 million. Yes. 1.1 million. So what have we collected from them thus far? So they're get a little over a million. They've been open for about a year.
So in total from that location it'll stand up to be an additional two two million. They've actually got 1.5 million a year. Um, with regards to uh 385-25, the um abandoned and vacant properties,
are all of them abandoned? Are any of them city-owned? Um, sure. None of these properties are city owned. Um, currently these are vacant and abandoned properties by private property
owners. Thank you. Follow-up questions. Questions. Councilwoman Cherry. Yes. Coun. Um, for R 385-25, you talked about 800 crime instances. Could you talk a little bit more about
that? Sure. For the address that's located at 101 to 103 West 7th Street. This is the property that's at the corner of West 7th and Park Avenue. Um it's a total of
842 incidents of crimes. Um some of them have been assault. Several have involved the unhoused populations. There have been over 200 disputes. There have been thefts and larseny as
well and also assisted medical calls. Thank you. Thank you. Police director for 387-25. What was the total amount that we will collect in that 2%. From the original
the 2 the total amount is 1.1 million from the 2% from the two new cultivation and manufacturing. So the 1.1 million in addition to that, what's the original amount the for the property that's currently
there? The property that's currently there is 1.5 million. 1.5. So now this is going to be an additional 1.1 million. 3.6. Okay. And then for 380-25, how will the city disperse these funds for the 3 million? Is this
reimbursement? How does that look? This is three contractors. Um, so this is for the PACE grant. Did I hear you correctly? Correct. For the PACE grant, this particular one is going to apply with one of the
contractors particularly with SN Kofa because this requires to be a US DO certified apprenticeship program first before you can get a pre-apprenticeship program. So how that would be dispersed is that the city would act as the fiscal
agent for the $3 million and basically account for how it's going towards the workforce development particularly for the construction because it is our property that they're doing the construction as well in the program development for the pre-apprenticeship program.
Okay. Thank you. I think that's it. Any other council members? Yes, I have a question. Just a quick question. First of all, I'm very glad that um at least one of the properties I know about the 636 West 4th, that's about seven houses
from me, so I know what's going on. I've been reporting a lot of things there. And thank you, Director Abney. Um the force has really been with me on that property. So, thank you for that. Um cuz there were unhoused people in there also
as well. and um they were moving back and forth and you know I make sure I let them know I see hey um so thank you for that. Um just a quick question also on R 388-25 you were saying it was subdivided
subdivided with who? The original cannabis vendor. So there's a clay 9 that was originally approved there. Okay. So there's a license already approved there. Okay. All right. I didn't know if it was someone from the outside. What I wanted to know because you're going to
subdivide. I wanted like is it somebody coming in new or someone that already exists? That's why I asked that question. Thank you. Other questions? Yes, council president. One question. Sure. Uh 385-25
is that block 556 lot 29. That's the rescue squad, correct? 700-10 West 7th Street. Yes, it is. So, the funds that we receive from the county, is it attached to that property or can we allocate those funds for another project? I believe in the last council meeting
the BA reported that those funds were going to be used for the alarm system. Is that correct? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Uh do we have consensus to add these items
to the voting meeting? Yes. Yes. Okay. Are there any uh opposition or abstensions to any item? I ask that we um not have consent on uh 385-25.
Okay. So 385-25 removed from the consent agenda. Uh do we need a formal action to pull uh 386? We need a motion for that. As this
excuse me as this is is this the executive session meeting we do not need to pull that. Okay. Um formally we would have to do that during the regular meeting not the agenda fixing session. Okay. Thank you. All right. Uh and so regarding
the items that we have here pulling 385 from the consent agenda. Do we otherwise have consensus? Yes. Yes. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposition or abstensions? Okay, that shall be noted.
Okay, we now move on to ordinances on first reading. Uh would the business administrator please present the ordinances? Yes. Thank you, council president. We have seven ordinances on for first reading this evening. The first one is
an amendment to our property maintenance code and this will put it in line with state statute and the state code um to mimic their due process language. The second ordinance that we have is an ordinance to create a permit process for
Airbnbs in Planefield. And this would be done through our property maintenance um division. The third ordinance that we have this evening is adopting the 7 the 437-457
West Front Street redevelopment plan. Um this is a commercial laundry mat and a maximum of 20 apartments. The next ordinance is um
a tax exemption with respect to 314 to 322 East 4th Street and their financial agreement with 314 East 4th Street Development Urban Renewal LLC. This is a 30-year pilot and right now on
that property, we would get $108,000 over the course of 30 years in tax revenue. And if this is adopted, that $108,000 would turn into approximately $8.8 million over the 30 years. So, be significant increase in revenue for the
city taxes. It's a 68 unit building um 10% affordable and the pilot escalates over the course of it. The next ordinance is um an amendment to the financial agreement with North A
Warehouse uh Urban Renewal LLC. This is a switch from how you're going to how the financial agreement is calculated. So when you previously had it in front of you, the financial agreement was being
calculated from considering it a warehouse and since it's going to be more recreation, this amendment would switch it to being calculated by recreation. So it's the difference of calculating it from square footage to revenue. Um so now it would
be revenue just like the one the one prior which is revenue based. The next one is a first amendment to another amendment to a financial agreement with SRV Planefield 3 Urban
Renewal LLC. Um, and this one is similar to the resolution 389-25 for City Village. This is um required by their bank, by their financial institution. It's just additional timeline language about their refinancing and what would happen if
they default. So, it's um it's just required for their bank. And finally, we have an ordinance um to adopt the Myrtle A redevelopment plan amendment. And we discussed a little bit about this in our
special meeting that um the neighborhood health center potentially could put up for sale property that they own. And this would allow them to subdivide their current property and add uses to what can be built there. And the uses would
be civic property, telecommunications, light industrial, commercial, mixed use. So this would allow them the opportunity to subdivide and potentially sell that land. And that's that's the ordinances we have
this evening. Okay. Any questions from council members? Yes. Go right ahead. Council Bren Jones 2541. You said 20 apartments is going there. How many spaces for parking?
That's not being presented. You're being presented with the redevelopment plan yet. You haven't been presented with the redevelopment agreement that'll have the full project description. Okay. So, this mainly just an introduction. Okay. Thank you.
Further questions? Okay. Do we have a consensus to add these items to the voting meeting? Yes. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposition or abstensions? Okay. Those items shall be added to the voting meeting. Okay. We will recess for
5 minutes as we get together for our voting meeting. Okay, we will proceed to our business recording in progress. And uh we'll move on now to ordinance on second reading and final passage.
Madame Deputy, please read bond 1285 by title and certify its legal compliance. Bond 1285. bond ordinance providing for various 2025 capital acquisitions and improvements for the sewer utility of the city of Planefield in the county of
Union, state of New Jersey, appropriating 615,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 585,000 bonds or notes of the city to finance part of the cost thereof. It is hereby certified that notice of a public
hearing on this ordinance was published in the Courier News on September 9th, 2025. Okay, the floor is now open to any member of the public who would like to speak regarding bond 1285. Is there anyone online? Seeing no one in
the gallery, I'll make a motion to close public hearing on this ordinance. So moved. All those in favor say I. I. Okay. Uh public hearing is now closed. May I have a motion to adopt this ordinance on second reading and final passage?
Second. Clerk, may we have a roll call? Council members Briggs Jones, yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hakaday, yes. That's unanimous. This bond ordinance has been adopted on second reading,
final passage. Okay, clerk. Uh, Madame Deputy Clerk, would you please read bond 1286 by title? Bond 1286, a bond ordinance providing for various 2025 capital acquisitions and improvements for the solid waste
utility of the city of Planefield in the county of Union, state of New Jersey, appropriating 1,35,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 985,500 bonds or notes of the city to finance part of the cost thereof. It is hereby
certified that notice of a public hearing on this ordinance was published in the Courier News on September 9th, 2025. Okay. The floor is now open for any member of the public who would like to speak regarding bond 1286. Seeing no one online, no one in the
gallery. Uh entertain a motion to close public comment. So moved. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Okay. Public hearing on this ordinance is now closed. May I have a motion to adopt this ordinance on second reading and final passage? So moved. CL, can we have a second?
Second. Clerk, can we have a roll call? Council members Briggs Jones, yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hakaday, yes. That's unanimous. This bond ordinance has been adopted on second reading and
final passage. Okay. Madame Deputy Clerk, please read bond 1287 and certify uh its legal compliance. Bond 1287, a bond ordinance providing for various 2025 capital acquisitions and
improvements by and for the parking utility of the city of Planefield in the county of Union, state of New Jersey, appropriating 325,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 325,000 bonds or notes of the city to finance
the cost thereof. It is hereby certified that notice of a public hearing on this ordinance was published in the Courier News on September 9th, 2025. Okay. The floor is now open to any any member of the public who would like to speak regarding bond 1287.
Anyone online? Okay. Not seeing none in the gallery. I'll entertain a motion to close public hearing on this ordinance. So moved. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Okay. Public hearing is now closed. I'll now entertain a motion to adopt this ordinance on second reading and final passage.
So moved. Second. Clerk, may we have a roll call? Roll call. Bond 1287. Council members Briggs Jones. Yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hakaday,
yes. Bond ordinance has been adopted on second reading and final passage. Okay. Madam Deputy Clerk, please read bond 1288 by title and certify its legal compliance. Bond 1288, a bond ordinance providing for various 2025 capital acquisitions
and improvements by and in the city of Planefield in the county of Union, state of New Jersey, appropriating 6,760,200. Therefore, in authorizing the issuance of 6,24,177 and bonds or notes of the city to finance part of the cost thereof, it is
hereby certified that notice of a public hearing on this ordinance was published in the Courier News on September 9th, 2025. Floor is now open to any member of the public who'd like to speak regarding bond 1288. There anyone online? Their hands up.
Okay. Seeing none in the gallery, I entertain a motion to close public hearing on this ordinance. So moved. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposition or abstensions? Okay. Well, let's have a motion to adopt this ordinance on second reading and final passage. So moved. Second.
Clerk, roll call. Roll call. Bond ordinance 1288. Council members Briggs Jones. Yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hakaday, yes. Spawn ordinance has been adopted on
second reading or final passage. Okay. Madame Deputy, please read MC 2025-34 and certify its compliance with the statutory publication requirements. MC 202534 is an amendment to ordinance of the city of Planefield in the county of union
amending chapter 16 the vehicles and traffic ordinance article 4 section 16 col4-5 schedule 4 parking time limits on certain streets and areas. It is hereby certified that notice of a public hearing on this ordinance was published
in the Courier News on September 9th, 2025. Okay. The floor is now open to any member of the public who'd like to speak regarding MC 2025-34. Okay. Hearing and seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to close public hearing. So moved.
All those in favor say I. I. Any opposition or extensions? Okay. Uh it's public hearing is now closed. May I have a motion to adopt this ordinance on second reading and final passage? Roll call, please. Roll call. Ordinance 202534. Council
members Briggs Jones, yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hakaday, yes. This ordinance has been adopted on second reading and final passage. Okay. Madam Deputy, please read MC2025-35
by title and certify it's liquid compliance. MC 202535 is an ordinance of the city of Planefield in the county of Union granting a tax exemption with respect to certain property identified as block 723, lot 13.01, 01 1092-1098
Arlington Avenue and authorizing the execution of a financial agreement with 1092-1098 Arlington Urban Renewal LLC in connection therewith. It is hereby certified that notice of a public hearing on this ordinance was published in the Courier News on September 9th,
2025. Floor is now open to any member of the public who'd like to speak regarding MC 2025-35. Hearing and seeing none, I'll take a motion and a second to club close public hearing. So moved. Second. All those in favor say I.
I. Okay. May I have a motion to adopt this ordinance on second reading and final passage? So move. Second. Clerk, can we have a roll call? Roll call. MC 202535. Council members Brig Jones. No. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes.
McCrae, yes. Wyatt, no. Vice President Cess, yes. Council President Hakaday, yes. Five in favor, two opposed. Ordinance been adopted on second reading and final passage. Okay. Madame Deputy, please read MC2025-36 by title and certify its legal
compliance. MC 202536 is an ordinance approving and authorizing the execution of a financial agreement with 306 Wong Urban Renewal LLC for certain improvements in the TOD South redevelopment area. It is hereby
certified that notice of a public hearing on this ordinance was published in the Courier News on September 9th, 2025. Okay. The floor is now open to any member of the public who would like to speak regarding this ordinance. Hearing and seeing none, I'll entertain
a motion and second to close public hearing. So moved. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Okay. May I have a motion to adopt this ordinance on second reading and final passage? So move. Second. Roll call, please. Roll call MC 202536.
Council members Bridge Jones, yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, no. Vice President Cessum, yes. Council President Hakaday, yes. Six in favor, one oppose MC 202536 when adopted on second reading and final passage.
Okay. Madame Deputy, please read MC 2025-37 by title and certify its legal compliance. MC 202537 is an ordinance of the city of Planefield in the county of Union authorizing a first amendment to financial agreement in connection with
property identified as block 218 lots 23 25 Clinton Avenue lot 24 21 Clinton Avenue and lot 27 1314-20 West Front Street. It is hereby certified that notice of a public hearing on this ordinance was published
in the Courier News on September 9th, 2025. Okay. The floor is now open to any member of the public who would like to speak regarding this ordinance. Hearing and seeing none, I'll entertain a motion and second to close public hearing. So moved. Second.
All those in favor say I. I. I. Okay. May I have a motion to adopt this ordinance on second reading and final passage? So move. Clerk, can we have a roll call? Roll call MC 202537. Council members Bridge Jones, yes. Cherry,
yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hockad, yes. This ordinance has been adopted unanimously on second reading and final passage. Okay. We now move on to public comments limited to resolutions and motions being
considered this evening. A total of 30 minutes has been allocated for public comment comments for the same. Uh each speaker will be given three minutes. Uh give your name uh the city that you're from and the resolution uh or motion that you are speaking
regarding. The floor is open. [Music] Nancy Pivar playing field um on um R375-25. Um I think this is a great resolution. And I give Mr. um Dabney a lot of credit to try to get this uh grant. I have
worked with some students at NGIT and a professor there about the um about the boundaries for the militia post and I know how much their equipment their equipment is amazing. Um their cooperation is amazing and it's way over
my pay grade and they know what they're doing and I really appreciate the fact that Mr. Dabney uh went out to try to get this. And also I think some of the statistics and information that they develop can probably be used by the US Army Corps of Engineers who's trying to
develop that um Greenbrook Upper Basin study. So I hope that that that information will then be passed on to the Army Corps of Engineers and if you need the connections I can give you the the emails to those people. Um the other
um one I want to talk about is 387 388 the cannabis. Um, just to make you aware, I've gotten a couple phone calls and I live in that neighborhood and I I actually can smell the cannabis and other people have can smell it also. We
were assured at the time when Glade 9 went in that we would not be able to smell it, but within the past couple weeks, we can smell marijuana. And just so you know, there's schools nearby and it's a real concern to the neighborhood and it's a concern of mine that if I go
in my backyard, I can smell it. Um, when you drive through Clinton Avenue, you can smell it. And um, you know, we don't know who we're supposed to turn to to get that corrected, but they need to fix it. Thank you. Is there anyone online?
Not with their hand raised. Okay. Name, uh, city and the resolution you're speaking regarding. Um, anonymous. Um, I'll be speaking on the resolution for the cannabis as well. Um, I just wanted to state um, in my personal opinion, I think the, uh, smell of
cannabis is good. Um, cannabis um is used by a lot of uh medical patients and uh regardless of whether this is a recreational or adult use um children, parents, teachers, all sorts of uh professionals and many people from
the public use cannabis medically and um recreational dispensaries provide access to people who use it medically who don't have to go through the steps and the process of getting a card from the state and everything like that.
um the smell of burnt cannabis or the smell of raw cannabis um does not disgust me. Um and uh I'm uh I'm happy that uh that you guys are considering this. Thank you.
Thank you for your comments. Good evening. My name is Sharon Rosario. um Planefield. I'm speaking on the cannabis also. I live in that neighborhood and I can smell it very strongly and I am not a consumer of it.
It affects me personally and I don't like it. I would like something to be done. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Anyone online? Not with their hand raised. No. Okay, I'll entertain a motion and a
second to close public comments on resolutions and motions being considered this evening. So both s. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposition or abstensions? Okay. Public hearing is now closed and
we'll now move to the consent agenda. Um clerk, can you announce the consent agenda? Sure. Those items are 360 through 384 and resolutions 387 through 389. On
non-consent is resolution 38525 and removed from the agenda was resolution 38625. Okay. We have a motion to uh approve the consent agenda. So move. Second. Oh. Uh clerk, can we have a roll call on
the consent agenda? Roll call on the consent agenda items. Council members Briggs Jones. Yes, Cherry. Yes, Graham. Yes, McCrae. Yes, Wyatt. Yes, Vice President Cessums. Yes, Council President Hawk.
Yes. That's unanimous. The consent agenda items have been approved. We now move to resolution 38525. Okay. Can we have a motion and a second? So move. Second. Roll call, please. Roll call. Resolution 38525. Council
members Bridge. Yes. Cherry. Yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, no. Council President Hageday, yes. Six in favor, one opposed. Resolution's
been adopted. Okay. Uh we now move to items, ordinances on first reading. Madame Deputy, MC 202539 is an ordinance amending chapter 6, section 2 of the municipal code,
property maintenance code, approving the adoption of a revised property maintenance code. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to adopt this ordinance on first reading. So move second. Clerk, can we have a roll call?
Roll call resolution MC 202539. Council members Brick Jones, yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hothay, yes. Ordinance has been adopted on first reading.
Okay. Uh, Madame Deputy, please read the MC 2025-40 by title. MC 202540 is an ordinance of the city of Planefield in the county of Union adopting regulations governing short-term rentals by the addition of article 9 to chapter 17 land
use ordinance to be codified as section 179-49E through 179-49E.8. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to adopt this ordinance on first reading. So move. Second. Clerk, can we have a roll call?
Roll call MC 202540. Council members Briggs Jones, yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, no. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hawkiday, yes. Six in favor, one opposed. Ordinance has
been adopted on first reading. Okay. Madame Deputy, please read MC 2025-41. MC 202541 is an ordinance of the city of Planefield, County of Union, New Jersey, adopting the 437-457
West Front Street redevelopment plan dated October 2nd, 2025. Okay, I'll entertain a motion to adopt this ordinance on first reading. So move second. Okay, roll call, please.
Roll call MC 202541. Council members Briggs Jones, no. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, no. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hakaday, yes. Five in favor, two opposed. Ordinance
has been adopted on first reading. Okay. Yeah. MC 202542 is an ordinance of the city of Planefield, County of Union, New Jersey, granting a tax exemption with respect to certain property identified as block
606, lot 3, 314-322 East Street and authorizing the execution of a financial agreement with 314 East Street Development Urban Renewal LLC in connection therewith. Okay. Okay. I entertain a motion to
adopt this ordinance on first reading. So move. Second. Roll call, please. Roll call 2022542. Council members Briggs Jones. Yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, no. Vice President Cessums, yes.
Council President Hawk, yes. Six in favor, one opposed. Ordinance has been adopted on first reading. Okay. Uh, Madame Clerk, MC 2025-43, please. MC 202543 is an ordinance of the city of Planefield, County of Union, New Jersey,
authorizing a first amendment to the financial agreement with North A Warehouse Oz Urban Renewal LLC with respect to certain property identified as block 341, lot 2, 336-346
Johnston Avenue and block 344, lot 3, 768-900 North Avenue. I'll entertain a motion in a second to adopt this on first reading. So move second. Roll call, please. Roll call. MC 202543. Council members
Briggs Jones. Yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessums, yes. Council President Hawkday, yes. That is unanimous. This ordinance has been introduced on first reading.
Okay. Okay, Madam Deputy, please read MC 2025-44. MC 202544 is an ordinance of the city of Planefield, County of Union, New Jersey, authorizing a first amendment to the financial agreement with SRV Planefield
3, Urban Renewal LLC, with respect to certain property identified as block 307, lots 20.01, 29.01, 01 31 0135 and 36 and designated in the city's tax
records as 412-16 East 2nd Street, 218-26 Richmond Street, 347-423 East 3rd Street, 343-45 East 3rd Street, and 339-41
East 3rd Street. I'll entertain a motion and a second to adopt this on first reading. So move. Second. Can we have a roll call, please? Roll call. MC 202544. Council members Berg Jones, yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. Gray, yes.
Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessum, yes. Council President Hakaday, yes. Ordinance been introduced on first reading. Okay, Madam Clerk, MC 2025-45. MC 2025-45 is an ordinance of the city of Planefield, County of Union, New Jersey,
adopting the Myrtle Avenue redevelopment plan amendment dated October 14th, 2025. Okay. Motion in a second. So, second. We have a roll call, please. Roll call. MC 202545.
Moved by Councilman McCrae, seconded by Councilwoman Vice President Cessums. Council members Briggs Jones, yes. Cherry, yes. Graham, yes. McCrae, yes. Wyatt, yes. Vice President Cessum, yes. Council President Hakaday,
yes. That is unanimous. This ordinance has been introduced on first reading. And that concludes ordinances on first reading for this evening. Thank you. Uh we'll now move to public comments. Total of 30 minutes has been
allocated for all public com comments of any nature at all. Um if anyone is online uh the number is conspicuously placed there. Uh
give your name city that you uh live in and the floor is yours to speak on any topic at all. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Sean Huggin. Or evening. I need my address, too. No, not necessary. All right.
The ice cream trucks, they park on the end of my street almost every day at a specific hour. And the the the horn they have in front of their truck, it takes you out of your bed. I went out there a few times. I'm trying
to keep myself out of trouble to tell them. I asked him kindly why they need to have it on blast at that volume and it's every day until I was in the night. I've never seen an ice cream truck in Sleepy Hollow. So, I don't know if it's a certain area that they target, but
it's every single day Monday to Sunday. Next thing, those little sports cars with the modified mufflers, I don't know who uh would be responsible or who I could ask about a speed bump on my
street cuz they seem to fly down there like we on the freeway and it's a short street. It only goes between second and third. So, who in here as part of this city? So, initially I
said uh you know there's no legal requirement to announce your address, but because of the nature of your questions, we we Okay. Police need to know the block. I'll tell you the street. Yeah. Yeah. The street 222 Morris Street. It only goes between second and third
and they fly down there every single day. There's kids that live there. My dog plays outside sometimes. Not that he should be. I've called the station before about the ice cream truck, too. Okay.
That's it. Well, uh I want you to give your full comments and then we'll we'll respond afterwards so as to not cut into your time. Yeah, that's it. That's all I had to leave to find out like what could we do about the ice cream trucks. All right. So, at at the conclusion of
public comments, I'll have a me a member of the administration speak regarding those two issues specifically. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Nancy Pavar Planefield. One of my friends once said, "When does
a promise become a lie? The mayor presents residents for advice and consent to the city council for approval for the planning board and zoning board. People give their talent and take time away from their families to serve. They sit and they listen to testimony of applicants, developers, and expert
witnesses. Applicants and license experts swear under oath as to what they are proposing. And after the hearing, a motion is passed and eventually memorialized. People are taken at their sworn words and the honor principle is apparent. But what happens if what was
testified takes a different turn one, two, or three years later? Has the city ever prosecuted anyone for perjury or false swearing? And if so, what was the penalty? And if not, why not? Certainly, a complaint can be made to the proper
city zoning officer or city official. Planning and zoning board members take people at their words. Yet, why is an applicant allowed to dishonor the board members, the system, the city, residents, and neighbors by not following the decision
of the planning board or the zoning board of adjustment and what the applicant agreed to do? Thank you. Thank you. Name and city. Floor is yours. Hi, uh, Larry Cohen. I live in uh
Fanwood. Um I was here last month and I'm back to ask you once again to please consider following up on a resolution you yourselves passed earlier this year um about the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet stores. You passed a
resolution in support of the state's effort to to make this state law. and I came last month to ask you to pass your own ordinance to make your views about what the state should do apply to your own town. Um, I don't know if any of you
saw this, and I know you can't see the the wording here, but just two weeks ago in all the media across the state, there was an announcement from the Attorney General's office because eight pet stores that sell dogs had been fined for violating the Pet Purchase Protection
Act. Um, that's almost half the stores in the state that actually sell puppies. And in fact, since 2022, six of the other stores have also been fined. So that's 14.
I have it confirmed from consumer affairs that two other stores are currently under investigation. So that's 16 of the 18 stores that sell dogs that have either been fined or are under investigation right now. This is not a
lawful business model. Um, I would also like to to just um let you know about something else that goes on that that proves the um wisdom of what you did in January and what I hope you will do now.
Every year, the Humane Society of the United States puts out a list called the Horrible Hundred. There are thousands of puppy breeders across the country and what they do is they scour reports, mostly state reports, to come up with a an a
representative list of a hundred of these breeders that are the worst among the worst of the worst, so that they can tell the public exactly what these breeders do to dogs and unsuspecting consumers. So, it's not easy to get on that list,
first of all. Second of all, the odds of a store actually using one of those breeders is very, very small. Well, these stores every year have to submit the lists of their breeders to their towns. And we go through those lists
every year. And I can tell you that having gone through the lists of the stores that chose to submit their lists this year, there were 34 instances of those stores you using breeders that are on that have been on the horrible
hundred at least one time. So not only is this an unlawful business model, it's a completely unethical business model. Dogs suffer tremendously. Humans suffer when they end up with these dogs.
Um, to help you perhaps understand this a little more, the stores themselves, you can finish your sentence, admit that they only provide about 5% of puppies in the state of New Jersey. So, it's not an this is not an issue of
saying, "Well, where will people get their dogs?" Um, I've brought the the ordinance once more. I've emailed it to you. I had it last month, but I' I'd love to hand it out to you again. I'm I'm so hoping you consider this and in the alternative if somebody could
dialogue with me and let me know what your concerns might be so that I could try and allay them. Thank you. Thank you. Uh good evening. I will be remaining anonymous. Um I want to speak about uh some of the things that happened last time I was here. And the first thing I
want to say is I encourage everybody that comes up to speak to ask for the 3minut clock to be shown. It's uh sad enough that you only get once a month here in Planefield to speak for only 3 minutes and we don't even have a clock facing the public because uh
transparency is a big part of government. Um and not even showing a clock is not a good start. Uh when I came here for the last time, uh you know, I don't like the security checkpoint, but you guys have in place. That's fine. I feel like it's a fourth amendment violation. No big deal. Is
what it is. Uh the officers who were manning the security checkpoint, they allowed city officials to go through and uh through the chair to Dave, you know, we know how we do in Edison, you know, all because otherwise it's viewpoint discrimination. You're granting special privileges for city elected officials
and public officials. And if it's for safety, it's kind of a liability issue if you're actually not treating everybody the same. So, um, last time, you know, I even started off my comments by thanking you all for the jobs that you do. And I do get a gauge of everybody, and I do think you're all
good people and you do want the best for your town. I even thanked the city clerk in my opening statements uh, just to find myself in a back and forth with the city clerk who decided to cut me off during my public statement. And the big problem is is at the September 29th
special meeting through the chair to Dave, there was no public portion comment for the public to speak on items not on the agenda. And I know you know this and uh according to the OPMA um the revised statute 10 col4-12
subsection A every meeting every meeting has to have a public portion set aside for items not on the agenda. and do the chair to the public information officer when you compelled me to look to see what the what the website stated for the
last meeting. It didn't say anything about the executive session, but it did have public comments on it. It did have a public portion for the public to speak, which was then not on the paper agenda that I got the doorway. Uh my first encounter with the officer over
here to the right, he told me when I came in here, he engaged with me and told me I can't sit in the front row. I don't know why nobody else sat in the front row for that whole meeting. So, I just thought that was not a real warm welcoming and and then I was engaged by the other officer who told me that he
needed me at a volume two because I was speaking at a volume 4. Not really sure why I was given so much grief. Um, I do have a camera and I'm filming and that shouldn't really raise any suspicions. You have a camera here, you have a camera here, and you have a camera here. But all of a sudden, a guy with a camera who comes into a city for the first
time, you put yourself in my shoes and you're being told, "You can't sit in the front row, you you're being cut off during your 3 minutes." As I'm bringing up a point of how there was no public comment. So, I was forced to speak on the resolution. And as far as I'm concerned, I should
have another three minutes for the three minutes that was taken from the last meeting. President has elapsed. Okay. Thank you. Can we at least acknowledge that there was supposed to be a public portion for every meeting through the chair to Dave? Can we acknowledge that every meeting has to have a public
portion? Can we at least acknowledge that president of the speaker? You can have a seat. Can we acknowledge that? He he can speak freely, but you can sit down as well. If you want to chime in on public com Well, let let us finish public comment.
Then we'll have all administration uh address any comments that were heard. I'll be happy to. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Pamela Dunn. Couple of you know me.
Okay. I'm here for safety. And I agree with the gentleman with the ice cream truck. If you can also go to the corner in front of Hover School on Spooner Avenue and I do believe that is
Lavine. They're right dead on the corner. Every afternoon when the children are coming out of school, it's not only blocking the corner, but now the kids see the ice cream truck and
there they go. My other concern is when parents park in front of school, they sit in a car and they wave for the kids to come across the street. The kids dash across the street. Two kids have gotten hit already. I've had this concern for two
years now. Something needs to be done. My other concern is the crossing guards. Okay, I don't know what kind of training they're getting or not getting or they're not paying attention to a video or whatever the case may be, but I'm
telling you now, two of them was going to be in the hospital before the end of the school year because they're not doing what they should be doing. They seem to think that they're just going to stop. They're not stopping. The traffic
on Planefield and Eth is my concern and the traffic on Seventh and Spooner is my concern. These kids have to cross these two major streets to go to school. They're not stopping.
I've sent emails and I've also sent pictures of safety apparatus that could be used by the crossing guards and it shouldn't cost that much. I mean, because the signs are already there. All you need is a solar panel, a amber
strip, and a button. The amber strip will notify the traffic that somebody's about to step out in front of them instead of just That's what they're doing. Okay, that's my concern right now. and also with the
loud muffer on the cars. And I don't know if you plan on increasing your inspection code enforcement group, but someone needs to reach out to these landlords because the overcrowding of these two family homes
were having more than 10, 15, 20 people in them. You got one driveway and maybe 10 of them got a car. Now you're parking. you going down Sixth Street is like playing chicken with the driver coming the other way. That's all I got to say. Thank you.
Thank you for your comments. Is anyone online? Not with their hand raised. Okay. Thanks for the nuance. Okay. I entertain a motion and a second to close public hearing. Second. All those in favor say I.
I. Okay. Public hearing is now closed. All right. There's some outstanding questions. I'll give the administration an opportunity to respond to um we could start with the uh public uh requirement for public comments in special meetings.
Certainly. Uh thank you, council president. Um I have had an opportunity uh since the last meeting to confer with the clerk on this. Um, and I think there's a piece of information that hasn't come to light, particularly in the public comments this evening, is
that we are subject to a special charter. Planefield is unique in that we are one of eight municipalities in the state that has a special charter. What does that mean? Our special charter is adopted by the state legislature. Not only by the state legislature, but by twothirds of the state legislator
legislature, a supermajority. So what is the effect of that? The effect is that our charter trumps any state law to the contrary and in our charter specifically it states that the council has the right
to make to adopt its own procedures with regard to public meetings. Now, by and large, we follow the open public meetings act. And I believe on the evening on the last special meeting, we did follow the uh open public meetings act because there was a public comment section. But whether or not it's a
general public comment section or specific to the resolution that was voted on, that is up to this governing body. And by adopt by having an agenda that had just one public comment, you were in compliance with the special charter. So I think that individuals who only look at the open public meeting
open public meetings act will be missing this very important law as it applies to playing field. Hopefully that answers your question. Thank you. Thank you. So we have sir you ready for me? Yeah. Yeah. We you want to go on? Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. Go
ahead. Let's talk about everything else. Ice cream trucks. Sir, what time do they come to your neighborhood? What time does that happen? Right after school, let's say about I get home from about 3:20
and it's I have class online. Okay. And I'm hearing them from my office. So, they're just sitting there for an indeterminate amount of time, right? And the problem is it's not that
they just come down the street with the horn. They sit there with the horn on glass. Okay, I'll address that. I'll have my officers looking into that starting tomorrow. If there's a problem there, we'll write a loud allowed music or loud ordinance ticket. We'll take care of
that. I called just to find out like, you know, is there something in place for like a turn out there already and ask them to return several times. There is and we'll we'll address that for you. I'm I'm sorry that it happened
like that way, but we'll take care of that. In terms of loud mufflers and things on vehicles, we can only catch people when that occurs. So, you understand how that works. If they're driving down the street, by the time you pick up the phone and call the police department, they're already going out of the area. Uh there was a project that that is a pet project that I'm trying to
work on with the uh state assembly in regards to something that New York City has, which is sound cameras, but that hasn't gotten any traction yet, but we're going to keep working on that. that should help that. In regards to children crossing the streets, um
we have several things that's going on there. 7th and Spooner is a is county roadway. So, we're working with the county government and trying to address that and put those um uh those yellow neon signs with the two persons on it to try to get people to slow down. Also at
7th and Spooner as as like se as like Planefield and ETH there are two crossing guards at both of those locations. If there's an issue regarding their training we will make sure that we will have that monitored. Every crossing
guard receives training through the Planefield Police Department. That has occurred for the last 30 years. It hasn't changed anything recently. As a matter of fact, we probably provide more training than most municipalities in this area. uh kids being hit and ice cream trucks
at Harvard School. We will work with the school security and also with their um with their administration, the principal, and address what's going on with these ice cream trucks hanging around schools after school lets out. That that shouldn't be occurring. It's
just pro it's just creating a a a public nuisance in my opinion. And if that's going on while we're out there, I actually have a cop that is assigned to Harper School every day. He will go out there and he will address that. So, that should take care of that problem. Um,
I think that's everything that I have. I don't have anything else. Is there anything else from anybody? The speed the speed bumps we'll take care of, but we'll discuss the rest of that after the meeting. Thank you. Okay. Okay. I think all all addressed. I'll
entertain a motion in a second to adjourn the meeting. So move. All those in favor say I. Council President. Yes. Real quick, uh before we adjourn, can we just have a moment of silence for Lois Matson, the former Absolutely. Council Men's wife, please.
Yes. Absolutely. Thank you. Rest in peace, Miss Matson. Meeting adjourned.