than the following is the agenda for the regular burrow council meeting of the burough of pton lakes mayor and Council and Municipal Corporation in the county of theic the meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. on February 26 2025 in the municipal building 251 Avenue pton Lakes
consistent with the open public meetings act the meeting will be open for public comments and shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Burrow's Municipal Code of please stand for our flag I to of United States of America
and to the repblic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all please bless this mayor and Council has deliberated on the best of PPT and lak in conformance with open public this is it is in conformance with
the open public meeting Law Public Law 1975 chapter 231 adequate notice of this meeting setting forth the time date place and purpose of this regular meeting through notice posted on the bulleon board in the municipal building mail to all have requested and paid for same and published in Suburban Trends roll call please may
here council president pador here councilman Cruz here councilman Hinton excuse yes Council woman Ken here Council cwan kilber here
and councilman Ben here with us this evening is our B attorney David glutenberg and Michael Carelli is excused Mich yes okay we're going to start with the O the office and before we start you know I say this every year to the people that come but in my opinion we have one of the most
outstanding volunteer fire departments that I've seen large numbers of people involved and I'm always amazed because I do get the calls on how many calls you go to in the middle of the night for a CO2 answer you know I know you all got jobs you all got families you all got lives but you're still waking up at 2:30
in the morning to go answer that call so congratulations to all of you for being involved with that with that well yeah [Music] we okay does everybody know who's getting sworn or am I just I have call as we all here yeah come
on find your name on the paper here did you remember your Bible I did not I'll be right back you don't have sign [Music] yet up on books will that work I guess I have to ask myself that
sure sure works for me [Music] here don't leave at it though don't leave with it I you good anybody else needed you good
touch the head or the Bible whatever you get to don't tou your yeah watch your face face forwarding hands on shoulders Works hands on shoulders there you go there you go okay are we ready we're
going to do the chief and assistant chief separately soon okay okay we'll do you after that all right anybody else come okay touch his head or the Bible here we go I State your
names to Solly swear swe I will support the Constitution of the United States I support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the contitution of the state of New Jersey I will bear true faith and Allegiance I will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments established is established in the united states in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people I will Faithfully I will Faithfully
partially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties of perform all the duties ofes Volunteer Fire Department fire department according to the best in my ability best my ability so help me God thank you guys for all
the dedication picture anyway Meeks [Music] okay I State your names you Solly swear swear I will support the Constitution of the United States I support the constition of United States and the constitution of
the state of New Jersey the constition of the state of New Jersey I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the government's establish the in the United States stes and in this state under the authority of
people I will Faithfully partially and justly perform all the duties of Chief and assistant chief all right now we'll get everybody together for pict
yeah conations all right before we start the meeting now the time to get out she just yes you watching all right guys [Music] okay call their Le it'll cool off
so okay under my uh presentation I also after speaking to some Council people I'm going to make a motion to appoint Jason uh lavasi to the Redevelopment board for a term to expire we'd have to get the paperwork but I think it's three years can I have a motion motion second
uh C hear it councilman venon Council Cruz and councilman councilwoman kilberg yeah kilberg whoever I'm sorry venon and kilberg venon and kilberg all in favor I against okay I'll speak louder all motion to open the
meeting for public comments so move councilman Cruz second councilman Von all in favor I against anyone from the public like to address comments no comments okay going once going twice so
motion to close the meeting for public comments so moved councilman Cruz councilwoman kilberg all in favor I against motion to approve the following minutes regular meeting minutes February 12th 2025 can have a motion so moved councilwoman kilbert councilman vended
all in favor I I against uh bills uh and authorizing payment of bills and wires as listed below can I have a motion Mo bennon councilwoman kilberg all in favor I I
against uh consent agenda does anybody need anything removed seeing none Liz whenever you're ready where's the mayor and the B Council of the bough P Le has red the consent agenda consisting of various proposed resolutions whereas the mayor and bur count of the bough compon links
does not desire to remove resolutions for individual action from that agenda now therefore be it resolved that the following resolutions on the consent agenda are hereby approved resolution 2511 through 25124 can I have a
motion ven Council venon councilman Cruz all in favor I I against ordinances for first reading yeah just explained that ordinance 2513 was pulled and it was actually ordinance 2510 we just Chang the numbers to same
ordinance go ahead Liz an ordinance amending chapter 7 section 730 turn sir stay open prohibited burrow code of the bur of pton lakes to prohibit leftand turns between 400 p.m. 6 p.m. from Ringwood
Avenue into the soaring cor wash drve motion to approve ordinance 2513 for introduction so moved councilwoman kilberg councilman venon roll call please councilwoman kilberg yes
councilwoman poori yes councilman bennon yes councilman Cruz yes coun councilman councilwoman Ken yes just one sec Liz are you not are the mics not
working or you no we could hear the noise okay thanks okay better yeah much ordinance 25-14 an ordinance amending this specific penalty for the violation of the parking prohibit of for
snow plowing and removal motion to approve ordinance 25-14 for introduction so second councilman Cruz councilwoman kilberg roll call please councilwoman kilberg yes Council
paor yeah councilman bennon yes Council CR yes count 10 okay final readings can she hear you oh you there Maria yeah I did she call my name yeah yeah yes yes
yes uh ordinance 25-9 this ordinance has been advertised and posted on the municipal bulletin board Bond ordinance approp ating 79650-1301 [Music] jow 130 Legion
Street um on the public part it has down that there's 0 from Grants and reserves was under the impression that the project down at the baseball fields had5 to $600,000 Grants yeah that's not this project yeah I mean the money
specifically say isn't this the money that's going towards the cameras and being split towards the baseball field no the the money is going towards the cameras yes and hershfield park um Improvement of willowfield in and by the burrow including by the construction of a new baseball
field is it listed that way on this in addition I mean I understand it's for the cameras I definitely think there should be a review of the contract and an understanding of how the infrastructure of the town will be affected when those are installed if they are and if the funds that are
requested here don't go to that will they go back to paying this off paying the I'm sorry the bond that were if they're not used well when you take a bond yes you have to take it out and you keep it but then it would go back when we pay a bond down if if we don't use it
for the cameras that money is then allocated to go back to this or would it be used for something else no no would go back to be paid back to paid down the bond y that was my main question is with it just all he brings up a point and I'm going to ask my attorney yeah this is
this is actually for hershfield park right that's what I thought wasi Willow Fields right so it's first but it's listed as Willow you're saying on that I didn't read installation of new and additional security cameras at various locations in the burough Improvement of Willow field in and by the burrow
including by the construction of a new baseball field so Liz we I don't know is that a mistake or are they referring to the baseball field in regards to cameras not the actual Construction it was on there two weeks ago too I read that's what it read I asked for clarification
then right so that's why I when I started I thought that had to do with ordinance right here with um do you have the ordinance he has or he's reading something the one that's right here yeah I didn't get to see that so this is the advertisement this is the advertisement right what just I'll read
it thank you that's going to be I have it electronically my suggestion is that we re advertise Journal well I want to ask Liz before we say that if that's correct is it possible that it is for herfield that's this it's
for Willow it says Willow field including the construction of the new baseball field together with the Landscaping structures equipment Furnishing that's what it's for okay so then this what it's for so this this is no then that's it's on the baseball yes
okay so then yes you are correct I am sorry you are correct yeah so isn't there grant money yeah there is there is there is there's nothing paus in that project I don't want it to pause no no no what happens is is that usually initially there has to submit the
application for those monies and we have to wait for that to come through but as far as I'm concerned right everything is moving forward yep I know they came last meeting too because it was Joe was here we clarified with him too just to let him know we're we're we're in a good spot and they met with the architect and they met with the architect already the
next day but I understand his question is asking why writing it actually does mention it the it says estimated cost being exclusive of the aggregate sum of approximately 430,000 received or expected to be received by the burrow from the county
of theity that's here in it oh but it's not in what he has right I only have the newspaper he only okay so I think that's is public VI that does not need to be in the newspaper but it is in the bond ordinance Okay so
okay there is yeah there is grant funding thank you anyone else from the public like to address just this ordinance seeing no one can have a motion to close the public session on ordinance 25-9 motion second venon councilman Cruz
uh all in favor I I against motion to approve ordinance 25-9 for final adoption motion councilman V second councilwoman kilberg roll call please councilwoman kilberg yes councilman
pador yes councilman bennon yes councilman Cruz yes councilwoman Kent yes okay uh ordinances 25 11 uh I'd like to make a motion to adjourn ordinance 25-11
and 25-12 second do we do them separately no we can do them together we can do them together aoll call all right so 11 and 12 uh councilman venon made uh initial and councilman Cruz made the second uh all in favor I I against okay
that is our ordinances under my report Mar is on my phone so it's going to be hard to look but I'll I'll wake it work thank you uh I attended the planning board meeting um where they did some discussions on uh on the uh master
plan for you know there's some discussion of when we'll do a master plan and how that's going to take some time I attended the bid meeting uh where they discussed um their elections which are coming up so if anybody is a business owner and is interested in being on the bid you should contact the
bid themselves and and put your name in I attended the zoning board meeting which I'm sure councilman Cruz will talk about I attended uh the wreck meeting which I'm sure councilwoman kilberg will talk about I uh performed numerous weddings I had a meeting with uh the
mayor of Riverdale and the administrators and the ambulance Department Squad about funding uh moving forward for our ambulance squads again another volunteer group in our town that does an amazing job again all volunteers no one being paid at the end of the day they're out there saving Our Lives when
we need them to be there so they do need equipment and funding and it is a joint project between the two towns so both the Mayors met to see what we can do to make that move forward um some good news the uh Civic Center and the back here which has been
closed for a while got their final permits so part of the deal when they built the Meridian Building which they're building in the middle of town was to redo our Civic Center and we're going to have a new building there which is going to have a women's locker room in it for police officers a women's uh
bathroom two new meeting rooms uh we're going to put some historic shelving around the sides for our historic committee we're going to build a little bit of an upstairs for some storage upstairs I have all new siding all new windows all new doors you know it'll be new building uh from the outside even
though we have to keep the same footprint of the building they hope to start that in the next week or two the permits are now approved so they tell me because they have the the gentlemen and people here working that it would go pretty quick so we'd like to get that building up and running in the next month or two it's been a big loss not having it I mean for the people have
been in town a while we used to have a lot of our meetings right there in the back of in that meeting Hall so to bringing that meeting back is is a big deal and that is my report uh council president Paul DOR no report tonight thank you
okay uh councilwoman kilberg um I'd like to say congratulations to Michael Carelli on the birth of his daughter um I attended the planning board meeting a library board meeting and the recreation meeting um the date for the Easter egg hunt has
been changed to April 12th at 2 p.m. uh the Pompton Lakes Riverdale Little League parade is on April 5th at 12:00 p.m. and the Pompton Lakes Women's Club is hosting this month's Community dinner at the Pompton reform church tomorrow Thursday February 27th from
5:30 to 7: um anyone is welcome to come um and I think that's it okay and I thank you for reminding me I did forget our administrator here had his second child on Monday so congratulations to him I'm sure everybody's wishing him a well um and he will be back in the next
week or two hopefully to do do his business but congratulations to him McKenzie Dorothy I'm sorry McKenzie D McKenzie Dorothy beautiful thank you councilman venon thank you mayor I want to congratulate our newly sworn in uh fire department officers Al also want to
thank them for their service to our town uh hisor commission uh met last evening there was no uh Board of Ed meeting since the last council meeting uh did do something fun with the um at Lakeside my first and last SOS night you probably
remember those Spotlight on 7th um was a couple weeks ago and that was a lot of fun it's like um Field Day type of activities uh with indoors and I also want to congratulate our B uh administrator Mike on birth of
the that's always St it's always a fun time uh Council MC Cruz thank you mayor uh this report is for the board of adjustments um it's going to be fairly brief uh we have two new applications boa
25.4 and 02 those were new applications and we had one two three resolutions that were all approved on that evening um also were the uh reorg and regular meeting uh minutes from January 28th
those were also approved as well and lastly we do have the appointment of the open space committee representative as of right now it's Mike cost but that may change soon after if uh they're figure trying to figure out a way how they're going to do going forward so that'll be do it for my report mayor but the both
both of those boards should be made aware that there are important positions to the open space because they are a voting member on that board absolutely and it does mean something at the end of the day agree thank you uh attorney's report uh nothing I just oh I'm sorry councilwoman
Kent I'm sorry I forgot you I know I'm out of say out morning um I don't have a report per se but I do have a comment I received a complaint from a resident yesterday regarding vandalism in the
Parks someone went down and Drew very blue uh pictures on in in the park areas um I believe on the uh playground equipment now we're spending after we you know look at our agendas the past couple of months we're going to be spending over a million dollars and we
still have idiots drawing bad pictures in the Parks do we need to have a a new ordinance on if we catch these people doing this kind of thing and I really don't care how old you are what age you are or whatever I
don't really care but we cannot be spending a million on improvements in our Park system and then have people come down here and Vandal us well I'm not I'm not sure what to do about it but I wanted to bring it to everyone's attention and thank you it is a criminal Char a criminal charge for vandalism
unfortunately if it's juveniles that's a different way they look at it unfortunately it's just the way it is um I I don't I would hope it's not adults going down there vandalizing our park we don't know that um we are going to be putting some new when we do our uh new buildings down there we will be putting
in some more cameras down there so maybe that'll help but I agree with you you know why why go after your own property where you where you're living it's just not right um yeah yeah exactly and I'm afraid now you know we're going to be upgrading the the garage the storage
shed I you know I don't want to see that thing sprinking you know especially if you put a really nice facade you know on that building and have it scraping we may not be able to ever get it all I I just want to pute everybody you know we have to be aware that our police department has to be aware that if they
catch these people or they get a call I want I want them I want them prosecut if they catch me I will pass that on okay thank you thank you I'm sorry uh attorney said no Liz you want anything you have anything you want to report no no okay now your big chance you could
have really taken over here no okay um okay motion the meeting for public comments motion second invented councilman crws all in favor I I against anyone from the public like to address please step
up 12 R may have ordinance 2514 ordinance amending to specific penalty for the violation of parking prohibition for snowf flowing removal what was it what is it now you have that 45 now I don't know what it was I think it's in here
45 is it 36 it was 36 it was it was 36 now it's 45 dollar y dollars I I that's great I only hope that we can start to enforce it after the last snowstorm it's pathetic how many people just completely ignore uh getting their vehicles off the
street I was on Facebook with it I got every excuse Under the Sun I don't have room I work I got too many cars y y y I don't care get your damn cars off the street thank you anyone else from the public i s hand go ahead okay TR 130 Legion Street um as far as
the snow park goes you guys tow the car that was in front of my house it's been there for 3 months thank you that's good to hear um I don't know who puts out the town calendar that has like all the different meetings and stuff could you ask them to include the Board of Ed meetings as
well just on the calendar they I'll explain it when we're done but I'll explain what some we have an issue with that sometimes but okay thank you thank you I another hands please step up that was I thought it was for hi Lyn hazelman 50 white
way so recently there's been a lot of issues with the pond hole and parking last year it was $50 for 6 months to park in the pond tole for business um workers this year it is now $50 a month
which is $600 a year people that work in the businesses can't afford that not to mention there's only 50 spots for them to park in they're not guaranteed and they can't park on the street also my friend was followed to
her car two weeks ago after 3 months ago her front windshield was keyed and yeah in the Ponto be behind where she works somebody went and like keyed the windshield and it wasn't like some crazy
X it was just random and it was done to one or two other cars at the same time okay you know you know incidents happened but now 2 weeks ago they were followed to their car by somebody begging for money when they came to the town hall to get their permit for this
month uh they were they said like somebody followed you know there's no cameras or is there cameras and they said no there's no cameras so now it's a safety liability there's an extreme need for the parking for high school students business owners and these new residents
and it's not safe there's also so feces which I would hope is animal but I don't think it is and lots of broken beer bottles so thank you I'll answer at the end thank you anyone else from the public address seeing no one can have a motion
to close the public session so moved kilberg councilman Cruz all in favor I against uh Paul we I can tell you we did Issue tickets maybe not enough but we did Issue tickets uh I got a lot of calls and complaints from just what this gentleman was saying you tow my car in
front of my house I understand you might be a new Resident but we're pretty lenient here in parking on the street more so than most towns most towns don't allow any parking during the winter months on the streets we allow it all we ask is that you move your car during a snow emergency it's as you mentioned
it's not asking a lot if you have to put it on your yard we're not going to give you a ticket for one day for putting it on your yard okay but we have to plow the streets that's what it's about if we don't get curb to curb curb and then we get another snowstorm the street starts to narrow and it becomes harder and
harder to to to drive through to them so it is very important that we get the cars off the street and I understand there's new residents maybe they don't know that the ticket will is your first welcome to Pompton if you've got a ticket for parking maybe you're not going to do it again so thank you for bringing that up um thank I'm glad to
hear that the car was was ticketed and removed did you look is it on it's not on I believe it used to be so the part of the problem I'm going to go to my clerk was we have to have our dates in by a certain time and sometimes they don't have their calendar they don't have their dates or they change so that's why we don't include it because
we don't it may not be the right information so it really is not beneficial if we have the wrong dates in there so our calendar we need to know everything by like June 1st and they don't put their dates out usually till middle summer so like the clerk is saying we don't want to guess and then we get it wrong then we get yelled at
for putting the wrong dates in so we I agree it should be on it would be great if we could um but that's just the way the schedule works out and just to note their website is mobile friendly so even if you're looking at it from your mobile phone is relatively easy to find from there we do have a link on the burrow website got to navigate a little bit to
get to that sub page um and it's only going to take you back to the the uh District page anyway but it is mobile friendly you'll be able to see it there pretty clearly all right parking so we uh most towns are charging for parking nowadays you go to a Ridgewood or monair you know anywhere they're charging for
parking we're not asking for a lot of money to park I understand though the complaint that you're bringing as as uh workers and people who work downtown we are going to sit and talk about that a little bit to see how we can make that a little better for the workers but unfortunately at the end of the day they're going to have to pay some
something to park there that's just the way it is they do they are by the way and I've had issues with it but you are allowed to park in the street and put money in the meter it's just after a certain amount of time you have to move your car and find another spot but believe it or not there are some people that are doing that downtown um it's
something that we we did discuss uh you know with the students driving more and there's more kids driving um you know we're trying to get that number equal to what's there but they keep adding and and it's going to reach a point that there's a waiting list and that's just what's going to happen with the students
it's a shared parking system so during the day it should be a lot of empty spots and at night when people come home there should be less spots but we are going to work with with the with that about the other things you mentioned I would have hoped that when you noticed it or when this person noticed it they called the police immediately and then
the police hopefully would have come down and taken a report and saw what happened and I don't know if that did or didn't happen um going back after the fact sometimes is very difficult for the police to actually look at anything and understand it and I always tell everybody even if it's a minor thing and it's and you you think it's minor you
call the police department let them put it on paper let them get some pictures so you have it in front of them we w we will be adding some more cameras in this new project that we're just talking about that we paid for we're going to be adding cameras all over town that will be an area that will have some uh cameras um you know this has been a very
long debate about the garbage back there because we had garbage cans back there at one point and they were being abused and people were dropping sewing machines from their house and all kinds of stuff in these cans so we had to remove the cans but we also have to educate the high school kids that when they're
walking back to school after lunch they should walk to the nearest can and throw it in not just throw it wherever they they see it fit so it's an educational it's been an ongoing problem with with the uh litter so we are working with that okay
okay uh appro to the floor anybody have appro to the floor no okay motion to adjourn motion second counc councilman crw all in favor hi okay thank you guys thank you everyone have a good night good night what does that tell you