The following agenda for the regular burough council meeting council municipal cooperation county will begin at 7:30 p.m. on June 25th, 2025 in the municipal building 257 l consistent with the open public
meetings act will be open for public comments and shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of municipal poet and vine. Please stand for our flag. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please bless this council as they deliver deliberate on the vest of confidence. [Music] In con 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 bulletin board in municipal building the law have requested and paid for same and published in suburban trends. Roll call,
please. Mayor sir here. Council president here. Council here. Councilman Hinton here. Counciloman Ken here. Councilman here. And Councilman
Bened. Excuse. Yes. With us this evening is our burough attorney David Bloomberg and our burough administrator Michael. Okay. We're going to go right to uh um can I have a motion to open the meeting for public comments? So move. Second. Council President Palori, Councilman Cruz. All in favor? I
against. Anyone who would like to address their hand, give us give your name and address and keep it to five minutes. Please step up. Hi, I'm Heather Shiml. I live at 120 Ramapo A. I'm one of the organizers of Pompson Lakes Pride Day. You may have seen some of my many posts on the town
pages. I wanted to share with the council that Thompson Lakes Pride Day this year was a huge success. This was our third year and definitely our biggest turnout. We had live music again thanks to Shamrock Music and Poponic and Offer Productions Theater Company. We also had two food trucks this year,
Rainbow and Donut Envy, both of which were a big hit. In fact, I'm still craving that vegan fried chicken bow buns that I had. I'm going to have to track down that food truck soon with the exception of the food trucks. Everything remained free again thanks to the generous monetary donations made by
community members and others in the months leading up to the event. At the actual event, we had booths with information and giveaways as well as over 20 activities, crafts, and games, all of which were run by our amazing volunteers. Sand art is always a fan favorite, but this year the biggest hit
were the cloth tote bags that people could decorate and take home with them. We also had a free little library with over 80 gently used LGBTQ plus books to give away. Toward the end of the afternoon, a mother approached me asking for a young adult fiction book that could she could read to better
understand her bisexual daughter's point of view, and I was more than happy to help her locate the book. Overall, it was a beautiful event that enabled the LGBTQ plus community as well as their allies to come together and celebrate love, tolerance, diversity, and inclusion. Now, before I sit down, I do
have a few thank yous. First, we want to thank the library board for approving our use of the library lawn again. And an extra thank you to Michael, the director of the library, for all of his help. We also want to thank Val Cole for all of her assistance. We want to thank the Thompson Lakes Police Department for their presence. Finally, we would like
to thank Councilman Randy Hinton for joining us on Saturday and showing his support. We are already looking forward to next June. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] You step up. Oh, hold on. I'm going with him first. No, go ahead.
I'm going with him first. He raised his hand before you came up. All right. Go ahead. Ladies first. Ladies first. Helocky uh six Butler Street. So listen to this plan.
Derek Clark is the chief of the Compton Lakes Police Department. His management style favors bullying and intimidation. One of the targeted group is William Pepe. Another is his second in command,
Captain Elaine Sashawn. Clark plans to retire in 2025, but he doesn't want Sashawn to succeed him. So, in May 2024, Clark recommends a second captain's
position to be added to a town of 11,000 people in three square miles. Unnecessary, except it fits the plan. On June 26th, 2024, Anthony Rodriguez is promoted to
captain, though, Lieutenant Spakei has seven more years of seniority and seven more points on the exam. The harassment by both Chief Clark and 77 Rodriguez continues.
Stupid stuff designed to undermine Son's authority and humiliate him. internal affair complaints for frivolous and contrived reasons like attending a mandatory CPR class or in the case of
Pepe tattoos he's had for years. If you've read the claims and I hope you have, you know that that's just the tip of the iceberg. You also know that all of the
disciplinary complaints come from Clark, not a coworker, not a member of the community. It's vindictive really. And these claims, by the way, have been downloaded
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times. The links are being tracked. After 100 100 downloads, they need to be uploaded again. New uploads will be added tonight.
It's sad to think that the people reading these who don't know of Hampton Lakes would think that this is who we are. On July 12th, 2024, Sashawn is suspended with pay. He's
ordered to surrender his weapon, badges, police identifications, and is barred from the building. On September 9th, 2024, Clark asked the police training commission not to renew Cash's license.
Sashawn is forced to surrender his comp time to cover the suspension. January 1st, 2025. Sashan is placed on inactive status. The
plan is almost complete. Late March 2025, Pepe files a lawsuit which indicates that Sashawn will also be filing one. April 9th, 2025.
In a blatantly retaliatory move, you suddenly change Sashawn status from with pay to without pay. And then in May 2025, the public learns of the lawsuits.
June 11, 2025, two weeks ago, the lawsuits were brought to the mayor and council's attention in a public meeting. But you don't tell the public that Clark's replacement will be discussed in close session as soon as the meeting
ends. If this promotion of seven and seven Rodriguez is such a swell idea, why the secrecy? The lawsuit alleges abuse, collusion, and intentional actions. you are
continuing the same behavior. What does follow is suspended Facebook accounts, cancelled hearings, passive aggressive intimidation. Ask me about that after the meeting, and
deliberate withholding of information to the public. The attorneys will make this right for the claimants. You need to make this right for the town of Compton Lakes. I think you also need to make it right for yourselves too since you are enabling
this terrible behavior and these serious offenses. But you can check with your attorney about that. Cut your losses and do the right thing. Thank you. Anyone else from the public address? Uh
Al, you put a hand up, right? Good. There's no question. Ron Kaki 142 South Court. Your own ordinance states promotions within the force shall be based on merit as determined by suitable promotion test. Do you plan on following your ordinance
from the next police chief? Thank you. Anyone else in the public? [Music] I'll keep this shirt. I just need your name and address. Oh, Jacob Finel 131 Oliv.
Um, so like many others, I've read the tors, too. Um, and I just think it's absolutely ridiculous that people who kiss the ring and abide with and go with uh the bullying and harassment that you
have as a chief and now you're uh putting in a guy who followed the chief's orders every step of the way, was at PBA meetings and reported back to the chief, reported back to Clark. Uh if you have someone that's kissed the ring
and is has been a loyal subject of the chief, I don't understand how you can promote them. And in all honesty, it seems like you guys are kissing the ring, too. Thank you. Yeah, sure. Y
good evening. George Kapulv 11:04 Kfax Avenue which I'm sure all you guys are bored to hear every single meeting. However, again, misinformation. I don't want to say anything stronger than that, but no
response, no nothing aside from a hairbrain idea of digging up over a 100 yards of Kolfax Avenue, which was proposed in 19 in 2013 by H2M Jeff Marsman, and they checked it out, except they couldn't
figure out how to get water to run uphill. As a taxpayer, I hope somebody reviews that objectively and not getting a contractor to dig up the road and then abandon the project cuz we're going to pay for that. As a
taxpayer, I really object. Secondarily, I'd like to hear where is the progress? Haven't heard anything from anyone aside from that hairbrain scheme. When will I when will I get an answer? When are you going to stop misrepresenting things? And don't tell
me your last thing was an answer. Wasn't an answer. He didn't do anything. I'll answer I'll answer at the end. You'll answer at the end. You won't give me an answer. It's right. 16 years and you guys can't come up with an answer. It's one pipe that is washing out my property.
My walls are about to collapse. My patio is collapsing. How much damage do you want to incur? Do you want to wait until somebody gets injured on my property? You've been mayor for how many years? [Music]
Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else from the public? [Music] That's okay, sir. You've been here. Good afternoon or good evening, ladies and gentlemen and mayor and counsel. I have two questions to ask you. Name and
address. I'll evangelize stuff. Ring the court, Pmpton Lakes, New Jersey. First question is there were two lawsuits filed I believe in the police department and the captain was suspended with with Petty originally and then at a
later date without paying. Now we had a lawsuit against the fire chief individually and the Burough Pontton Lakes and this gentleman is still in the position of leading that department every day. And I want to know why in one instance
for whatever reason the gentleman is suspended and it might be really so I don't know I don't know too much about that but on the fire side okay there were affirmative action complaints made okay it wasn't a complaint about not doing your job or anything affirmative
action threats harassment intimidation and bullying against the family two people that have given their lives for the in service at Sparrow. Okay. I am now beginning because I'm friends with them to feel
and and be subject to harassment. Okay. And what I what I feel is intimidation. So here's my point. I want to know why suspension in one situation and no suspension for an egregious act in my in my opinion which is a threat made to
people. It was investigated by this bureau by a private law firm that you hired and the resolution that came back was in fact the allegations that were made were valid that weren't true and I don't know why
there was no action taken at that time by this burrow against that person and we just ignored it and like ignoring anything that's bad like cancer it goes from bad to worse and this is the situation we have Yeah, we got division
within that organization. Okay. Major issues between people. Um I was just announcing on Saturday that I was not going to be doing the the U Facebook page and I got a outpouring
of comments from the community. I want to thank them publicly here for that. I don't do it for that reason. Okay? I do it for all the right reasons. I do everything for the right reasons. So, I'm not going to tolerate I'm not going to tolerate and in my career I didn't
tolerate harassment, intimidation, and bullying. We have laws for the kids in high school and schools against harassment, intimidation, and bullying. And if a kid comes in on day one and he's guilty of that, he's suspended immediately
until further investigation could take place. I don't get it. We're supposed to be adults. We should be doing things better than the kids. But in any event, that's it. My second question is this. How much have we spent out of this year's budget already on litigation?
And the question is, looking ahead to the litigation that's going to take place, obviously these are probably going to go to court. What are we looking at budgetarily for legal expenses for this borrow? I can't imagine what it's going to be. Thank
you. Thank you. Anyone else in this hand? Good evening. Excuse my voice. Um, Jim Pleo, 1327 Get Avenue. Did I'm sorry, Jim or Jim? Jim. Jim. Jim Polo. P U L E
I O. And uh, you know, I got to say all these details have already been covered. Okay. And uh at 58 years old going, you know, I've got enough time to be a good witness to and I took a vested interest
while I was living in Bordon County to follow county municipal politics very closely. Um Richfield Park is where I was born and raised and there wasn't a two-party uh system of government and I found that
to be very refreshing. um kind of kept politics out of it. Didn't keep personal stuff out, but at least kept politics out. And I'm not saying that's the reason everybody's
here. But I what I would say is this. At the end of the day, you really just got to look at each and every one of you, the people you deal with, and you got to go on your merits.
You got to go back to you know ego step thinking what is right what is proper the name shouldn't matter the agencies shouldn't matter because if you lose sight of that
there's a big price to be paid not only in legal fees but you start losing stuff you lose the dedication of volunteers
cuz they feel like they're jeopardized and some of the legal stuff. I mean, look, I don't have any credits in law, but as a casual observer, some things have gone on where you could
just say that's pretty questionable. So, just please keep your eye on what's important. And uh I picked this town to live in for
a lot of reasons. Not taxes, not just the school system, for a lot of reasons. And you know, I don't think I made a mistake, but I've seen I've seen good parents go
bad. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else in public? Mr. B what we 12 may have. This is going to seem kind of silly and petty compared to what's going on here, but um I live on
Roma A and I am going up and down Kolfax Avenue repeatedly and every time I drive there and I see our American flags wrapped around the poles, it drives me nuts. I have gone out on at least three separate occasions with a 20ft pole to untangle the uh the flags. And the main
reason those flags are tangled is because of the garbage that is on the pole. I look today on many many polls there are two flag holders and that's what those flags are getting wrapped around and they are never going to unfurl unless somebody like me comes
along and and unfurls them with a pole. I would just just a suggestion that when they I I believe the flags are going to stay up until Veterans Day. though when they take them down, my suggestion would be as long as you're up there taking the flags down, take the garbage off the poles, the nails, the spikes, the old
brackets that are there that would allow our great American flag to hang freely and not get wrapped around the poles constantly. Just a suggestion. Thank you. Anyone else from the public like to address [Music]
My name is Trevor. I'm a 43 parent. Um, you know, anyone who knows me knows I've been outspoken about a few things in this town. One of which, uh, being not running stop signs in front of a middle school. And uh when
Lieutenant Rodriguez at the time ran the stop sign in front of the middle school with Chief Clark in the car and then Chief Clark proceeded to tell me that it's perfectly legal to run stop signs. Uh [Music] yeah. Uh later on I ended up uh talking to
Lieutenant Rodriguez at the time and he made a lot of excuses for Chief Clark. Said, "Oh, laws have changed." She was he was a little confused. Again, the for our chief to misunderstand a stop sign's
pretty silly. Um, we have a lot of good police officers in this town. A lot of really good guys and they deserve good leadership. when the um superintendent Amarosa spent
$20,000 to make a video promoting a referendum and then posted that onto YouTube which got absolutely zero views and wasted $20,000 of the taxpayers money. The town posted that video as well and I took issue with that because when the school posted it, they posted
it as a video for children that only got marketed to children, which isn't what it was for and not what the taxpayers spent $20,000 on. and they uh blocked the public from being able to make any comments on that which is pretty disgusting. But the town
uh YouTube did that as well and I believe it was by mistake that it got posted with the town that way and I I brought that up to you and I have to say I had a tremendous amount of respect for you when I did that because you said that's that's crazy. The town should be
able to comment on this. we shouldn't be restricting the public from being able to voice their opinion. I I'm serious when I say that. I couldn't have walked away from speaking with you that day with more respect for you for saying that. Uh Emmer also
didn't feel the same way. Uh, with that being said, there's two lawsuits going on and there is [Music] whatever the result is, I hope that we can walk away from it and I can feel as
proud of you as I did the day I came and spoke with you about the video. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? I see him [Music] and Tinelli five Lambert Street. I just
want to thank Michael Carelli because he took care of a project that we've been waiting forever on Lambert Street. The um guard rails were removed were replaced and the trees were removed, the one of which was growing into. So, we
did a great job. Of course, my friend Ruth Hopper wants to know if you're doing anything with the bridge now. So, that's on your bucket list, I hope. Anyway, that's really all I had to do to say tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else would the public like to
address? No. Seeing no one, can I have a motion to close the public session? Motion. President Paulori, Councilman Cruz, all in favor. All right. Against. Okay, we'll start at the top. Heather, thank you for doing an outstanding job with what you set up. You you you and your
team of the people, the volunteers that helped you. You really did it on your own and you did this by yourself. So, kudos go out to you for doing that. You know, I'm glad you had a good turnout. You had some nice weather. I'm glad the groups were involved. So, thank you for everything you did in setting that up. It's a nice event. So, thank you. Okay.
So, we're going to talk about the lawsuit and for everybody that spoke. The lawsuit, we'll start with the police lawsuit. The police lawsuit is a legal matter. We can't discuss it up here a as a council person. It's going to go to a court and a judge and they're going to make an independent decision. Has
nothing to do with anybody sitting up here. Okay? We don't go to the court. We don't go to listen to it. We're not part of that. It's an independent person that's going to listen to the claims. If some if you're getting a lot of your information off social media, you should think twice about that. You know, we we
can't guarantee everything is true that's on social media on both sides. I'm not just saying on one side, but at the end of the day, we can't really speak about a legal matter. And I'm going to let the attorney jump in a little bit here to explain why we can't do that. Well, that's absolutely correct. We're not going to litigate a
lawsuit here in a in a public forum. What you're seeing are the allegations that have been brought against the uh the burrow. Um, and you're only seeing those. So, bear in mind that the plaintiffs in all these lawsuits bear the burden. they
haven't met that burden yet. So, uh we are the the bureau is being defended. We have insurance council that has been appointed in each of these matters and has specifically stated that the council is not to speak on these things. Nor is
any administration member of the administration to speak on these things. These are these are now for the attorneys to work through with respect to if I can just go on since it follows from that with respect to what legal fees the bureau will uh
will have to face here. Um all of those legal fees are are covered by our membership in the joint insurance fund. These are all insurance fund appointed attorneys that will be defending the bureau. So, we're not there's there's nothing no monies that we're setting
aside or paying out to attorneys to defend these lawsuits. So, so just to follow up so everybody understands, we hire we have insurance that covers us for these kind of lawsuits. That's part of the money that we put up front when we do this. So, there is no extra cost for any of the lawsuits that are involved in town to the residents, to
the taxpayers, to us. It comes out of what we call the JIP. It's a it's a conglomerate of towns together that put together and get their uh get the legal analyzation from that. So that's where the the fighting is going to come. I I wish I could give you more information. Let's wait to see how this all plays out. Once it plays out, we can then talk
about it a little bit more, but we can't talk about anything until this plays out. And it's in the process and uh you know, it's going to take time. I can tell you it's not going to be settled tomorrow. So it's going to be timeconuming. So, we all have to just sit back, relax, and and worry at how
it's going to move forward. Don't can't take any questions. Um, Mr. Popoff, I was told you cannot talk. I'm going to have to ask you to be removed. Okay? You can't I'm going to say it one more time. One more time, please. You can't talk from the audience. Okay? I I gave you guys
chances to talk. Now, it's my chance. Okay? And that's how it works. Um, Mr. Po, right before the meeting, I spoke to our administrator who told me it was all worked out. I'm going to let Michael address any concerns he brought up. That's the same great news every single meeting. Again, no talking. We just
spoke. We just spoke. We just spoke. No talking. Mr. Pap, please. Go ahead, Michael. Mayor, thank you. Uh, we had a phone call with the burough engineer the day after the council meeting last time. Uh, we laid out our plan to Mr. Popoff. I'm in the process of issuing a purchase
order and a contract to move forward with uh repairing the pipe in the street which will then in turn uh Mr. Papov rather will never have a drainage issue again because we're looking to abandon the pipe that is running between his
property and 1102 Kulfax. Uh so we're in the process the contract has been issued. Uh we told Mr. Papa that we will reach out to him once we are finished with that work and we will come to an agreement with him to restore his property and that you know that's the
process that's what we're doing. So what is the time frame for this? The work is expected to start in the next two weeks. So you're telling me the work's going to start in the next two weeks on removing the pipe which would stop the flooding issues on his property and then we will address the concerns of anything that's was damaged after that. We are rerouting
the pipe from his property close to the Oakland border and abandoning his pipe between his property really on 1102 KFax's property. So it seems to me we are making progress and we're talking about weeks not months or years to make this happen. So that's good news. Thank
you. Can I just ask one question? Just a quick question. I know that we're rerouting the pipe now for the damage to his property. Do we have to wait for that to be completed to assess and determine the cost of the damage to his property and then anything else that
needs to follow after that? Can we do it in parallel so he doesn't have to wait? We are. Yes. So it is in parallel. We're working on it. Yes. Can we just back up for one second and let Dave address a little bit more about the resolution for the appointment as it
pertains to what that actually means for tonight? Well, I was going to talk about that when we get there, but if you want to wait, let's go through the questions first and then Okay. Okay. Um, fire in the firehouse. Same situation. We can't talk about that. And you're well aware that we hired an attorney who researched
this and didn't come out with conclusions that you said, but the the real issue with the firehouse was there were no bylaws put in place on our side to make this happen. Now, I know the argument is there were other things involved that should oversee that. Our attorney does not believe that. So
again, that's going to go to what? Labor the labor attorney. Yes. A labor attorney is going to look at that and and that again will go to a court hearing and we'll see what that comes out of. We can't make any decisions on that. Yeah. He is the chief in the firehouse. He was elected by his members
to be the chief. Now I understand you feel he should be removed from the chief. We have no mechanism until we just added the new ordinance in place. Now, that would not affect him because he's grandfathered in before this to kind of address something if that was to come up. But previous to that, there was nothing in our bylaws that was able to
remove I can't have you talking. Um orders and by Okay. Um the litigation question was answered, you know, about where we're paying for for all the uh how everything's being paid. Oh, the p Paul, thank you on on the comments. Can we reach out to the DPW uh Michael or my or
Maria? Yeah. And uh I I agree. Let's pull out anything that's causing an issue for the flag to get caught caught on. I mean, if there's, you know, old flag poles or nails, let's pull it all out. May I ask Mr. Bulby after the meeting to give me the locations of the ones that were It's all of them. Start
at Lake Avenue and go all the way. Okay. Yeah. I just want to jump in on that. I've been observing that myself. I've gotten numerous complaints from residents, too. There's no reason why those flags should be in such disarray. Okay. So, we'll reach I think they were hung differently initially this year for
some reason. Well, of course, the wind is going to blow them. It's going to twist them, but somebody should be keeping an eye on them. Are they on a different pole this year than they have been in the past? No, they were they were initially placed, I think, horizontally and were subsequently moved
back to the way they originally. One of the residents mentioned that there were two polls and this is on a different poll this year. Is that possible? I I'll speak to the DPW. Yeah, we'll get it squared away. You know, if you could talk to the TPW and uh if they go out in their bucket truck. Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. We
don't need a bucket. We don't have a bucket. It's called a ladder. That's true. Well, if we had one, they could have went up in a bucket truck or they can use a ladder. You don't get one yet. Okay. Uh Charlie, same thing with your questions. Thank you for your comments. But I I agree. If
he was running a stop sign and I wasn't there and I did see the video, that's wrong. There there's no excuse to be running a stop sign as as anybody. um you know, including myself. I mean, no, we we all have to follow the rules here from chief all the way down. Um uh Ann, thank you for the comments about Lambert Street. I'm glad we got that fixed.
We'll see what happens with the bridge. I can't tell you much. We we'll see what happens. Okay. All right. Uh approval of minutes. Motion to approve the following minutes. Regular meeting minutes, June 11th. Close session meeting minutes, June 11th. Can I have a motion? Motion. Second. Councilman Hinton. Councilman
Cruz. All in favor? Against. Uh, bills and claims as listed below. Can I have a motion? Motion. Councilwoman Kent. Need a second. Second. Uh, Councilman Cruz. All in favor? I against. All
right. Now, in our resolutions, I'm going to let's talk about because we do them all together, but maybe somebody will ask first of all, does anybody want own pool? Yes. Yes. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'll go first. Uh 224, 233, 235,
238, and 239. And you can do 235 and 238 together if you'd like. Okay. Do you have any different ones? No. Four. All right. So, Liz, let's
let's start with the ones that we're okay with and then we'll go back to them. Okay. Whereas the mayor and burough council and bur council makes consent agenda consisting of various proposed resolutions. Whereas the mayor and burough council of burough council lakes
does desire to remove resolutions for individual action from that agenda. Now therefore be it resolved that the following resolutions on the consent agenda are approved. Resolution 25- 225
22 26 227 228 22 29 230 231 232 236 237 and 240 and 234 and 23 234 Yeah. Okay. Can I have a motion? Motion. Council President Bidori. Second. Councilman Hinton. All
in favor? I All right. 25224. I want you to read it first, please. [Music] Yes. 224. Yes, please. Okay. Appointing Anthony Rodney as officer in charge of the Compton Police Department. Okay. So,
what that means is for the public's uh we're we need to have an interim chief because our chief will not be here starting July 4th. He'll be out until January with with the time he's acrewed, which is a good thing for the town. In some towns they would have to pay him out for that money. He's offered to us
which is a good nice offer to use the time so we don't have to pay him. So meanwhile we would have to have an intram person in charge. He will be the interim chief staying as a captain. Okay. That will be his title. He will be the captain as the as the um interim
chief. Um so for the council any questions or concerns about it can't take public. I can't hear you. Oh I'm sorry. You couldn't hear me. I'll say it again. Okay. All right. So, what we're doing here is appointing an intram chief
because our chief will be out as of July 4th by acrewing all the time he's collected. Now, in in some other towns, you've had big payouts for chiefs that are leaving. He's worked with us and said, "I don't want the big payout. I will use my time." But that carries him for about a year off. So, he will not be
in in process here for a year. So, he's going to be using his time. So we have to put in uh someone in his place as an intram means for the next year our captain which is captain Rodriguez will be the intram chief. He will stay a captain but still be running the
department for the next year. I'll take any questions from you guys. First question I have is in that position as officer in charge that doesn't mean automatically he becomes chief at a certain point in time. No, we will
discuss that as a council, as a group later on. Okay. So then there is a possibility that the lieutenants and the captains still could to have to take a chief's test in order to get applied for that
position. Is that correct? I I will Yeah, there there'll be other things to discuss depending on how the uh ch the tests work out. There's certain people that can take tests or people can't take tests. Some tests have expired. It's a very complicated situation on how it works. It can't be waved more than once, for example. So, there's a lot of things
involved with that which we will be discussing. That waiver is just jumping a position. Correct. All right. And that can only be done once, right? That has nothing to do with testing. Well, it does if you were waved into a position and they want to be waved to the next
position, right? But still, it's it it's doesn't have anything to do with lieutenants who want to take the test or captains that want to take the test. True. They still have to take Yes, they could still take the test. Yes. Any other questions?
No. Okay. So, let's vote on 25 uh 224. Can I have a motion? Motion. Councilman Cruz. Can I have a second? Second. Councilman Hinton. All in favor? I I against Okay. Uh
was that the vote? All in favor? I Yeah, that was the vote. Yes. Is it a vote? I just want to We don't need to roll on that. No, I just want to make a comment on that before I ask for my vote. Yes. Well, you said yes, but go ahead. Make your comment. Well, I didn't say yes.
You said all um I've known Anthony Rodriguez for 26 years. Um, I've known him to be a good, hardworking man. I've known his family. I asked in close session one time, not that I could bring
up close session, but I asked the attorney and uh I was going to abstain on this vote and uh the attorney informed me that I don't have to abstain if I know Captain Rodriguez and I know his family, which I know all of them and
they're a fine family. Um, I'm very disheartened about this litigation that's coming up, but like you said and the attorney said, we have nothing to do with that. That's going to go its own course. We um the chief is stepping down
and we do need somebody to take his place. Um, and I look at that aside from the litigation. Um, God forbid if if it turns out bad for the chief and uh, captain, um, then we're going to cross that bridge at that time. Correct. But
for right now, we need somebody to run the department. And, uh, so I want to just say out loud, my vote is yes for um, Captain Rodriguez to run the department. And, uh, we need leadership. Um, all these charges are just charges.
Like I said and you've said, we're not attorneys. We're not the judge. We're not the jury. Um that'll play itself out. But meanwhile, July 4th, we need somebody running a department. Correct. And I agree that um was recommended. The
man's been here a long time. He's grown up in this town. Um and I wish him and chief luck in this litigation. and uh we need to keep our great police department running and efficient as it
always has been. Um so my vote is yes. Okay. Any other comments? No. No. All right. So, I'm just going to add uh uh Captain Rodriguez is here tonight. Um we had a meeting uh just to talk about how things would work moving forward. And
one of the things he came up with as his own suggestion, which I thought was a great suggestion, and I've been the mayor here a while and we've never done it. he's going to uh try to make every council meeting so if there's a concern or there is a question from the public about something we can reach out I can reach out to him and say you know tell
me instead of saying I'll look into it and find out next week I can get you an answer that's a big step forward in trying to make things work with the community in my opinion um you know that we are a community-minded police department and we always have to get back to that that's the to me that is
the most important thing that you guys as the as the public and the police work together hand in hand on everything we do. It's very important to keep that in mind and I think we do a good job with the community model. When I first came on as mayor, the the the pecking order went state, county, local. The first
thing I did is switch it to local, state, local, county, state because I believe people who grow up in this town care a little bit more about the town. Yes, there are some side problems with that, but they know about our town a little bit. They have a feel for our town. They know what's going on. And a lot of the officers that we've brought
on, not all of them, but a lot of them grew up in town. And to me, that's very important because at the end of the day, their parents live here, their relatives live here, they care about this community. So I, you know, we have to take this all with a grain of salt. Like Mr. Hint, Councilman Hinton said, it's going to work through its course. If
something changes, we will address that at this moment. This is what we need to do. Um, okay. 25 uh 333 rejecting all the bids for the Willow Field improvements project. You got a question? I do, but I want you to walk
me through it first. Sure. So, this is a resolution to reject all the public bids for the Willow Field improvements project, which again consists of the construction of one large baseball field and two small T-ball fields. Uh after reviewing the responsive bids that we
received, uh the burough attorney and burough engineer uh had found that there was a material defect in the bid. Whereas the uh subcontractor's checklist was excluded within the bidder submission, which is a again a material defect that you cannot uh that you
cannot fix. Uh so we have no although let me say although that the bid was within our budget, we have no choice but to reject the bids. So, we're we're looking to reject the bids tonight and go back out to bid as soon as possible in hopes to again get a good price uh and get this project. And the same
bidder has already told us he will fix the mistake and rebid. Right. So, this is the second time we've rejected all bids. That's correct. All right. So, the first time it was because we had a list that was well over budget and the bids came in too high. So I guess it's been I
don't know six almost 8 months now since we initially started this process and we were pushed under the gun that this had to be done things were expiring the project was never going to take place and I had some concerns about the amount of money that we were asking for and it was met with the normal um you know
backlash of my concerns and here we are now 8 months later the it turns out the the ask list on that what we were looking for to go out to bid was in excess of what we needed. And now here we are going out to bid again. So I'm guessing at this point we're past the deadline. What do you
expect for this project and are we still within the time frame that we anticipated and within the budget that we anticipated? Thank you for the question. Uh I am in communication with the county open space trust fund office. Uh they are aware of this situation that
is out of our control at this time. Uh and we're still in compliance uh with all of our grants at this time. Uh and again, we're looking to go back out to bid as soon as possible. Uh this the the lowest responsive responsible bidder at the time uh was within our budget, but
again had a material defect that they could not fix according to state statute. So we have no choice but to reject. I would say that after you go out to bid in accordance with the local public contracts law, after the third time that you reject bids, you can then negotiate with any contractor you so
wish. Uh so there, you know, if if let's say the third time we get bids too high or again there happens to be a material defect from another bidder, uh at that point we could then just work with a contractor to get a price within our budget. If that happens again, I'd like
to see all of the bids that came back and what contractor we could potentially be negotiating with. Of course. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? No. Okay. Can I have a motion to approve resolution 25-233? Motion. Councilman Hinton, Councilman
Cruz. All in favor? I against. 2 235. 23. Do you want to do 235 and 238 together? Okay, we can do that. 235 award contract to Neielson of Marstown for purchase of utility vehicle for the
Department of Public Works. And 238 is award contract to Route 23 oil and wall LLC for F750 Utility for the Department of Okay, Mike, what do you got? Uh I you
know I was just question I've lost track of the vehicles that we're buying for the DPW. Are these new requests? Have we discussed these? We already know that we're looking at new garbage trucks in addition to potentially other new garbage trucks for
the shared service agreement. And now we have two new vehicles. Yep. This was included in the annual capital plan that was adopted by the governing body back in April. Uh and all these prices are within the estimates that we had. Uh so just to recap, the DPW is looking to
replace a standard pickup truck for their fleet. And also, if you recall back in the winter, uh, one of our salters was in extreme disrepair. We had to get emergency repairs on it. It kind of worked through the winter, but the recommendation at the time to the
finance committee and ultimately to the governing body was that we needed a new salter truck to to keep up with our snow operations. Uh, so again, both of these were included in the capital plan and our uh under budget.
Okay. Can I have a motion for uh 25 235 and 25 238? Motion. Councilman Hidden. Second. Councilwoman Kent. All in favor? I. Uh 25 239
[Music] resolution requesting the dedication program. There was a question. It's me again. So this is is this just something we have to put in place before we open up the application to the public? Yeah. So
this this is uh in accordance with the Division of Local Government Services. We have to set up what's called a trust fund. And with that uh we're allowed to take in fees for a program, whatever the program may be. The state puts out a list of eligible programs that would fit
within the type of fee mechanism that we're looking to do. So again, we're able to collect the fee and then spend out of the same account for the same purpose. Whereas if we didn't have this, we'd have to collect the fees as uh miscellaneous revenue and then put in an
appropriation in next year's budget to be able to spend those funds. This just calls for a quicker turnaround because we're going to want to collect the fees and then purchase the banners, you know, quickly. Rather, if we did it the other way, we'd collect the fees this year and we wouldn't be able to purchase the banners until next year. Okay. So, um, I
did reach out to Bob again. So, we are waiting to hear back hopefully in the next week with a date so we can just finalize this. Thank you. Okay. Can I have a motion for resolution 25239? Motion. Council President Paul, Councilman Cruz, all in favor. Okay.
Thank you. Uh, we have no ordinances. Wow. Okay. On my report, um, I'll start with I'd like to appoint Lori Tagert as a trustee to the library board to fill our expired term until December 31st, 2026. uh do I don't think I need
[Music] [Applause] Okay. Under my report, um I attended a very long planning board meeting which I'm sure Patrick will talk a little bit about. That was a 4hour planning board meeting. Um there was a lot on the agenda and we did not finish it. So then
it will carry over to the next meeting. You know, all our boards do an outstanding job. that's made up of people that really take time and care and ask the questions that what that what that what that what that what that what that what that what that what that what that what we need to do especially our planning board um so if it's timeconuming I'm okay with that because it involves new projects that would become and we're not talking residential
mostly I mean a lot some of them are but re um uh res residential and retail is what came up at the last meeting I performed a couple weddings um I am meeting with the fifth graders on
Friday the uh their advanced summer class um is putting together a program that they'd like to present to me and then maybe even present to the council some things they'd like to see changed. It's it's a bunch of students so we'll see how that goes. Uh we uh I'm meeting
tomorrow for the check we're receiving a check from uh Liz that's from which one Chilton right from Chilton and I thank them for the uh support they've always given us moving forward. And lastly, I just want to talk about, you know, there's a lot of talk about our fire department and police department.
In my eyes, and I've been doing this a long time, we have one of the best fire departments and police departments in our in the area. Our fire department has a great number of members. They respond to calls. They come out in the middle of the night. They do what has to do they do to protect us as a volunteer. Let's
remember that they're volunteers. Our police department, same way. Even though they're paid position, they care about this town. They're out trying to work with us the best they can. And I always tell the residents, if you have a concern and you see a police officer standing on the corner, you can go up, introduce yourself, say hello, say,
"Hey, look, this is what's going on in my street. Is there anything you can do?" And they'll move it up the chain. And you will get a call back from someone. It could be the new chief in in Mr. Rodriguez, or it could be the uh the uh old chief. But at the end of the day, they do respond to our concerns. Okay? So, we we we have to work alongside of
them. This council that sits up here spends a lot of time and energy on who they pick to take these positions. This is not a willy-deaf. We don't follow everything that is said by the chief all the time. This council and we'll make that decision at the end of the day. So, just let's keep that in
mind. I know it's a long process. It's going to take some time. We have like Mr. Councilman Hinton mentioned, we can address this again, you know, six months from now, eight months from now, but let's get to that point before we can address it. Okay. And that is my report. Council President Baldi, Council, can I
ask on your report? Sure. Um, Councilman Venon was not at the redevelopment meeting because he was on vacation. It was or was he? It was canceled. Oh, redevelopment was canceled. Yes. All right. I was just wondering if you had were there and had a No, it was cancelled cuz redevelopment is a big
thing with the people in town here. Everybody I talk to thinks that we're developing a little too fast. So, let's talk about that. Very important that we get a report on from the redevelopment. So, the only reason the redevelopment board is going to meet is if they have a
project in front of them. If they don't have any active projects in front of them, they're not going to meet. So, no, I'm just saying so the public understands they don't meet just to meet. If there's a project being presented, they're going to meet. They're going to discuss it and there will be a report on it. If they're not meeting, that means there's no projects presented right now. And that means
nothing is changing from what was presented previous to this. So that's why, you know, it might go 6 months, we might not have a meeting because of the fact that there's no projects presented. It could be three of them up. You know, you don't know. I just want to reiterate how important that meeting is to the
people of Pumpton Lakes who are concerned about redevelopment, right? They can all attend it, but I'd like to hear some reports when there is a meeting. Well, but I you also had misinformation there and saying he didn't attend, which I, you know, I don't appreciate cuz you know, then I apologize. Right. He he would have
attended if there was it was on the calendar, so I figured there was a meeting. Okay. I apologize to Councilman Bennett wherever he is. Okay. Council President Palor, thank you. Uh first I just want to make mention to the fact that Captain Rodriguez has offered in
the interim while serving as acting chief to attend the council meetings. I think that is important and I think having you present will you speak a little please? Yes. Sorry. Let's see. First I just want to Is that better? Okay. First, I just want to mention uh
that Captain Rodriguez has made an offer to in the interim while serving as acting chief to attend our council meetings and I think that that will be an important step for the public to see that you're here and present and acceptable accessible. So, I thank you for that. Um I attended the Flag Day
ceremony hosted on Flag Day by our Elks which is something that they host every year. It is a wonderful event. If you haven't had the opportunity to event attend it, I encourage you to do so in the upcoming years. They have um scouts
walk a flag out from every iteration of the flag from the first one to the flag that we see flying today with an explanation as to how they've evolved over the years. They also gave awards to uh local scouting troops that had earned their gold and eagle scout awards uh in
our communities. So they celebrated the scouts and our flag and then they served refreshments and and it is completely uh complimentary and hosted by our elk. So thank you for what they do there. Um I also had a few meetings with Ryan Gosser
from our prevention coalition along with our bur administrator. Uh we are nearing the end of the grant that has sustained that program for the last what is it uh 15 15 years 10 10 10 years. Um, and we are waiting to hear whether or not we are approved for a grant that will
continue the program. So, we've been in early discussions as to what the actual funding was to sustain the programs. Are any of the programs able to be run off of donations or fundraising efforts and what we can do to continue that in the event that we don't uh receive the next
grant. So, more to come. Hopefully, we can work something out because I do think that the work that he does in our community and our schools is of great value. So, I look forward to working with Michael and Ryan a little more on a budget for that. See if there's any way we can make that work. Um, I did reach out to uh both Liz and Kathy in the
office this morning regarding our YouTube and meeting link on the bureau website, which has become increasingly frustrating. I think by now you know that I'm a very process driven person. So I just don't understand the
mechanism that takes place for these meetings to go from here to YouTube to our Bora website. While sometimes it seems like they're up the next day and in this particular instance it took 2 weeks. I sent the email and then
fortunately within about 15 minutes we were able to get it posted. So someone is actually actively able to press a button and make it happen if it happened that quickly today. But I did ask for the contracts which I I haven't had a chance to look at yet. But I just we're paying for a service, right? We are the
client here. We're paying for a service. Our our vendors are paid through money that we raise from taxes from our residents that like the transparency and want to see the meetings. I just don't understand. Is it just whenever we feel like doing it? Is there a process? So
can you look into that for me and explain it? And if it's something that we're using now that that just isn't being executed properly, perhaps it's time to look at a different vendor. Okay, let me answer that first. Let me finish my report first. Um I also uh and
I'll ask Councilwoman Ken while we're here. I did pick up the posters from the schools for the turtles. Is there a July open space meeting? Yes. Can we add something to the agenda where the open space committee can look at them and and vote on the two? cuz I do think we have the piece of playground equipment coming
in now. It's been received by the installer and we're I think we're waiting on an install date. If not already installed, I think it's tomorrow. All right. So, if we um if it's installed and we're ready for July to vote, then can we do some type of a
ribbon cutting in August? I'll reach out to the schools and have them connect with the families if it's not possible to get everyone together in August, perhaps September. Yeah, I'll pass if I got open space. Just want to make sure we can get the kids there, too. I know this is tricky with everybody being away. A lot of vacations might not be.
So, maybe September. September. Okay. So, we can vote on it in July and then perhaps host a little event like we did at Pacific Gallow in September when school's back in session. All right. Thank you. Um, and then last, I asked you about this. I'm not sure if you had a chance to look in into it yet, but I
do want to bring this to everyone's attention while we're here. We uh I guess it's been almost 2 years, perhaps longer now, and I I don't remember the exact date. This council passed an ordinance um which stipulated that any Facebook page that was acting as a burrow or
representation of the burrow would not be left to the posting of individual volunteers that it would be shifted over to your responsibility or that you would at least be added as an admin on every one of those pages. So, we still have some committees and groups that have
ownership of their own Facebook pages and do post burrow business on behalf of the burrow. Some of them did adopt to the ordinance. Some of them did not. Uh, I would and there is a stipen that is paid to you to handle social media. Correct. Uh, not anymore. The role of
administrator that was uh given back but do you still have admin authority over most of the social media pages? Okay. So, can we look at that ordinance and figure out which ones are and which ones are not compliant? Because recently there have been some issues which
whoever is right or wrong, I I don't it's not relevant to me. I don't care. Um, but some of the things that are being shared and the way that the comments are being posted are making some of our departments look uh badly. It's putting some of them in a negative light and I think we need a little bit
more oversight there. Yes, I apologize. I've been scouring for the ordinance uh the past day, but I'll I'll have it to you uh and we'll take care of it. We'll address it together. Okay. That is my report. Okay. Well, just jump in on that. Michael and I had spoken about that and uh he is we we feel you are the
administrator on most of the sites. Correct. That's correct. Um and there are some private sites still out there that the town has no control over. Um right. That are that are private, have nothing to do with the town. Right. But we're still going to look at the We still have to look at the ordinance. Correct. And going back to her question
uh the council president's question about um channel 77 uh what we've come to it's not a hit or miss kind of my question wasn't about channel 77 well about YouTube and all it's all together um the equipment is outdated uh it has to be revamped we are just holding it
together with band-aids it is not a hit or miss it's not like Michael pushes a button it works some days it's working fine and other days it just goes out um and what we've been told I'm going to let Michael address this a little bit just recently he told us that most of our equipment is outdated and has to be up upgraded. Right. That I think that's
a separate issue from council president. Yeah. So channel channel 77 broadcasting of channel 77 is not connected with the uploading of the link to YouTube or the or the burough website. It's different completely different. Just I apologize council president. I think it's the conversion of the video file to an
acceptable format so it can be uploaded and honestly it's the service level agreement that we need to look at. I shared it with you. That's I did look at that, but it's not in there. From what I saw, it was a cost breakdown of the services that they offer. Do you have a different timeline, a time frame,
they're supposed to be responsive to the issues when they're reported. So, I don't know the the the details of that, but I would like to be involved if possible, just to get a better understanding on the technical side. Sure. Just so I can understand where they're coming from because I did look at that and all it was was just I saw
invoices. I I did ask for the actual contract, but it it maybe we can get something that shows turnaround time. The service level agreement should be very explicit, okay, on the timeline they should take to respond to a support request that Michael submits, whether it's 24, 48 hours, at the very least a
phone call. And I'm assuming in most cases, they can access some of the information remotely. And that has nothing to do with outdated equipment, correct? Well, the outdated equipment very well won't be. There's a lifespan with old equipment just like laptops. Laptops are four or five years, you get a new one. And I'm pretty sure that equipment has been here for a very long time. Again, it would be part of the
assessment when they do look at the equipment so we could understand what that cost is going to be. Can we do it in stages or do we have to do all of it because they're one dependent on the other? So, I think there's just a little bit more more conversations we need to have. It seemed like when the email was sent today, he was able to do it instantaneously. So, I'm wondering what
why it took two weeks and that much prompting. Yeah, I think we'll pull the service level agreement and if there is none that explicitly states that, we'll seek some sort of amendment that it must be uploaded within a day or or two, you know, we'll look at that, but I'll get back to both. Okay. Thank you. Uh,
Councilman Hinton. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I attended the open space meeting uh along with uh Councilwoman Kent and um just a few items and she can reiterate a little more on them. Um we understand that the basketball court
styles was turned down from our grant. Um from what um ex- councilman Kent said, the husband, not the wife. Um that the cost of that was pretty high. Um 14,000 for a
basketball court. That's about right. Um, I had my driveway done for half that and it's bigger than a basketball court. So, I think that needs to be rebid or relooked at awful expensive for that. If I may, it wasn't sent out to bid. We got a
preliminary engineers cost estimate for the work uh which we used to facilitate a grant request uh which was subsequently denied. It's a state grant. It's not like we did anything wrong. It's a competitive grant. Uh so we're trying to see if we can get a donation for that, but our focus right now is on
Hersfield Park basketball court in that Tilcon Hy had agreed to give us some sort of donation to resurface that court because we think that is used more frequently than the Styles Park court. Well, we're not forget we will we will look. Yeah, I mean it still needs to be addressed. I've seen plenty of kids
playing in there or trying to play there. Yeah. Um let's see. Um Muller Park property, I think, uh Councilwoman Ken will talk about that. that needs to be addressed. And uh an update on the Lakeside Pavilion. Um I was walking Lakeside Park
the other day and noticed the uh cameras. Cameras look great. They're mounted to buildings that are falling apart. Didn't look good. Um the as you call it the boat house, it's really a wreck house. When I was a little kid, we used
to have recreation there, arts and crafts. um the sighting, other people have told it just fallen off the building. It really needs to be addressed. Uh it's in poor shape, I'll say, with this company
present. Um I attended a senior meeting. Um they're looking forward to the senior lunchon at the Elks coming up on August 16th. Um they have a casino trip on uh July 15th and they're looking forward to n national night out on August 5th.
seniors are interested in that. And I attended the pride uh day at the library and it was a pretty nice affair. Kids uh had face painting and uh they had the two they had the bands playing and uh it
was really a nice day. Good. And uh I thank them for putting that together. That was the third annual. Yep. So um and two other questions or three really. Um, can we make sure that we get something
on Mr. Popoff's property on Koffax app? I mean, the poor man has been waiting so long and uh even if we do move the pipe, we got to restore his property, which we are. That is ridiculous. Um, also I had
mentioned to Michael uh two items. Um, by the new salt barn, uh, that's county property. um depends where the weeds between the new sidewalks and the curb are about 4 foot high now. If we can get somebody there to cut them, it would
make it look a lot nicer. Um and then even right in front of the building here, I brought it up at the last meeting. If we can get one DPW worker with a hedge trimmer, the hedges are growing through the bench. All right, we can please address that.
We can work on that. Thank you. That's my report. Okay. Thank you. Uh, and you reminded me just for the public's uh concern, the the uh recycling center has been closed this week. Um, you still can drop off your grass clippings in front of the uh gate uh up till Friday,
obviously up until Friday. It will be open next week. Um, but what they're redoing is paving the whole entrance coming in. It'll be a new paved driveway in and then you'll exit off of into Ringwood Avenue, which again will be paved. So, the whole site is now going to be paved. No more potholes, no more
dust. It'll be a much nicer facility, a little bit more room. Uh we'll work the county has has graciously offered to pave that for us. I had worked out an agreement with the county and I and they said we probably we can do that for you and they came in and did pave the our side of the recycling center for us which is a great improvement. So what
Mr. Hinton is talking about is that is their property I think right? Yes it is. We have already reached out to them. Okay. Perfect. And and if I just may offer a point of clarification for the grass clippings, it's it's uh to be dropped off at the DPW. You're right. Uh 40 Mil Street, not at the recycling. I'm
sorry. Let me let me say that again. You're right. I missed that. It's at the um 40 mil street at the DPW facility. You can dump your grass clippings up till Friday and then it'll be open again. Do not dump them in the new driveway. That would be very bad. A little messy. Okay. Thank you. Just can
we just one just a quick question? So, regarding the drop off, just cuz I've been to a DPW facility. So, how are they going to manage the incoming traffic that's going into the facility for the grass clippings as people are driving in? So, is there going to be a designated area where they're going to
direct people to say, "This is where you're going to go. Please leave them here so they're not interfering with everything." Oh, you mean now? Now, by this drop off this week, because as you know, people are just going to go. It was very busy this Saturday. I would imagine people as well are going to try to as much. I'm sure they're addressing that, but maybe you know, I don't know.
Yeah, the residents come in off the Hamburg turnpike down through the DPW yard. The container is kind of set in a designated area and then the residents uh go out left to Riverview Road. So, there's no turning around because we felt that's what was my main concern. People going to start going back to trying to get out of there. Okay. Thank
you. Can't take uh opening up. I can't take any questions. I'll address that in the next thing. Uh when are they opening back up? At July 7th. July 7. They're opening back up on July 7th. About Monday, July 7th. July 7th. On or about
Monday, July 7th. Uh, Council Kent, thank you, Mayor. Well, you all stole my report. Okay. So, I would have answered that. July 7th. They're they're planning, you know, tenative. That's the date. So, that's that's the tenative date. And it is Mil Street. I was going
to correct you, but uh but you already was done. And um and the grass clippings are easy to find. It's easy to find. And if you have a question, uh, there's usually a DPW worker in the yard, so you shouldn't have any problem with that. And we thank you for your patience on
that. And, um, once this recycling center is done, it's going to be really of a value to to the residents. So, I want to thank you on that. I did speak to Dan and and they're looking, you know, they think everything is on time,
so we should be good. So, just everybody know. Um, as far as the open space, uh, there was a question regarding a lot of kids and a lot of moms and I agreed. Uh, the jungle gym bars that that we don't we when we had them in the old swing
sets um and the old playground equipment, they were not replaced. So, we the open space folks decided that's something that they would like to to do. So, I'm going to get together with uh Michael and we're going to talk about the vendor and how where we can put them. I'm going to recommend that we put
a larger set with the older equipment and then maybe a smaller for the younger kids because they also like it too and it should be a little more challenging. So, we'll try to get the the 12-year-olds to still come to the park. Um, at the at the open space meeting,
um, there was a question regarding a property off of Broad Street. It evidently was purchased about in 2015. It is 3.5 acres and one of our open space committee members reached out to the property owner. He uh is being very
act proactive about this and the property owner is evidently interested possibly interested in dealing with the town. It would be probably enough um room to put you know some type of an athletic center or something. So uh mayor I was going to talk to you after
this meeting and Michael see whether it's something we'd want to get involved with. Um but as council yeah I I you know we we can sit uh where that works but uh we have really good people on our open space um committee and they do a lot of work and this was a really really
good uh project that he came up with on his own. So I want to thank thank him. Um Randy you brought up something else with the open space. Uh you had another property the m property. Yeah. Yeah. the
the pavilion is not really an open space um project. It is a maintenance project and and uh Michael, it's been a maintenance project since I've been on the council and even before. So that maintenance on the boat house itself has to be dealt with through the DPW and you
and um so that we have to address that because that that is falling apart and that has has been a problem. But the what the open space project is is to possibly repair and we were going to ask
for a new roof on the the gazebo the um the existing gazebo there. Um that hasn't been done yet and we're looking to get that done. We had submitted a grant for that uh council woman which was subsequently denied. So that was denied too. Right. So, we'll be back,
you know, we'll be back at that at some point. And and it's important that I mean, I want residents to know we do everything that we can with grants because we pay for grants through your open space tax. So, anytime that we know of a grant that's coming up, uh we get Michael to submit a grant application
and try to cover everything that we can. Um the other thing that came up was the guard rails along Lakeside Avenue and the fence that's literally falling down. I've been trying to get that thing replaced for at least 10 years and um my
understanding is the grant was approved. We have the guard rails. Yep. We have a state DOT grant for the resurfacing of Lakeside A from Jefferson A to Van A. And part of that scope of work includes uh repairing andor replacing all of
including the fence along the Muller property. So when can we do that? It'll be a project for next year in 2026. Right. We have a we have a pecking order of DOT grants that must be completed first. So right now we're completing Doors Highway. Then we're going to be moving towards Albany A and Waterlet A
and then Lakeside will be next. Okay. We can't push that any sooner because that is literally the worst eyesore I've ever seen. There's no other way to do it. We're doing the best we can with all of our Well, and I I appreciate that. I appreciate that and I'll bring that I'll bring that back. Um Okay. Uh I in
addition I also paid the bills and and uh we do have a very good vendor that does handle channel 77 which is different than YouTube. So as far as I know right now 77 is working but it's not working great. Yeah, it's off and
on. No, it works but it's hard to see. It's the the quality of the picture got very bad. It's very fuzzy. Very fuzzy. It's not good. He Frank was doing a pretty good job for a while. I don't know. He He seems to respond quickly. We ask him every time we have a problem. He
seems to go out there and do it. But this is what we have. YouTube is a different access to No, I know you don't. Tell me. I'll I'll I usually I usually go through you. Is that everyone as far as the quality? Well, yeah. So, when they got it back and running and and that was an equipment problem. Uh it
it the picture quality reduced greatly. I mean, it's it's like a fuzzy. You can almost not make out faces. I mean, it's bad. And it was much better before. So I don't know what that means. Well, just so everybody understands is you you can convert the file to high res video but
you know YouTube will charge depending on the size of that file. So if the quality of the video right now and I'm not saying it's it's it's the way it should be but the moment you convert that to an high-res video the size of that file is going to be enormous. So if
the first thing you should ask are they converting it to reduce the size so when they upload it to YouTube and that might be okay so that might be the case. So maybe we can ask because the file I'm assuming can be very big and we're talking about not to get on in gigabytes in size um cuz it's a long video you
know 3 hours can be long. So I would inquire about that first if he's converting that to to support you know a smaller file size so he can upload that to YouTube which in turn yeah it's going to be a little granular. I'll answer that question and include you on the email. I was going to say he's going to
ask that question for us. That's fine. Thank you, Bobby. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Um I too am disheartened with the um reports and the lawsuits. I I I only know what as a council person that we
are told that it's in litigation and we cannot litigate through at these meetings and we have to be respectful of our attorneys and um I only pray that the truth comes out and I want everybody to know that. So, and that is my report.
Thank you. Uh Councilman Quinn. Yes. Uh like you said, we had a marathon planning meeting uh last Wednesday, 4 hours. Uh basically, welcome to the planning board. Thank you. Uh in the coming years, we have to satisfy an
approximately 45 unit uh fair uh fair share plan uh for affordable housing. Uh we went through how we're going to be able to meet that. Uh in addition, we had a presentation in regards to Hersfield Park. Uh the school system will be uh replacing the football field,
adding track and putting in new stands. Uh in addition, 61q was discussed and 714 Hamburger Turnpike. Uh we got about halfway done, got a little late, uh but it does look like a improvement from
renderings, but uh still many questions need to be asked by the public and neighbors. Uh, in addition, unfortunately, I was unable to make the recck meeting last night, but I do have a bunch of announcements that they'd like me to make. Summer camp begins
Monday the 30th for kids 9 to 12 at Hersfield. Adults, volleyball, Mondays, July 7th to August 18th, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Hersfield Park. Any questions, call Mike 973715-5234.
Uh there will be a 5K run the morning of Compton Day, August 31st, 2025. They're looking for sponsors. If any local business owners would like to participate, uh vendors and volunteers
also, you can contact Karen 973839-4167. Oh. Uh on the day of Pmpton day, three shows by United Pro Wrestling Associate Associates uh 316 Lakeside A, Pmpton
Lakes. Shows are 12 3 and 5:30 and 100% free. Uh tomorrow evening will be the free dinner at concert. Concert concert. Yeah. Uh, free dinner. Yeah. Oh, no. I'm
sorry. Maybe at church. I'm sorry. Yes. Uh, yeah. Uh, pump reform. I don't see the address here. I apologize. Hamburg. Hamburg. Yes. Uh,
and then Memorial Day through Labor Day. Uh, there are paddle boats, kayak rentals, pingpong, cornhole. Uh it's again 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, Memorial Day through Labor Day, and that's at
Lakeside. And pickle ball adults, Mondays, July 7th through August 11th. Wednesdays, July 9th to August 13th, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00
p.m. Saturdays, July 12th through August 16th, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Uh, any questions, call 973715-55234. And finally, uh, unfortunately, a freezer broke at the summer camp. If anybody's able to
donate a freezer, they would be happy to have it. Please contact me. We'll arrange that. And that'll do it. Thank you. Uh just to remind because it was part of that 3M band. We'll be playing tomorrow as a rain date makeup. They'll be playing right now at the library. We're setting it up for the library. If the weather
was to change, look, follow on social media or on our website in town. They might move it to to Windsor school. Windsor school is offered inside space for us to have the concert. But I think either way, we will be having the concert tomorrow. Also, if you want to sign someone up for summer camp, you
still can this weekend by contacting our rec department or coming into Bur Hall. We do not sign people up the day of the day of camp. You can't show up with your child. We'll put you on a list and maybe you can get in after that, but you will they will not participate that first day. Um, Councilman Cruz. Thank you,
Mayor. Good evening, everyone. I have a brief report for the zoning board of adjustments. uh Gary Klaus who's alternate number three cannot attend. So that's been rescheduled to the next meeting. Um they approved the set of bills. Um this is a bi-weekly meeting
$46.25. Uh one application 25-03 for 430 Monontlair services uh which was $1,526.25 $25 and Maraziti Falcon LLP Legal Services
and this is and that was for $74. One application was rescheduled. This was application 24-09. And the resolutions on the second reading were all approved. These are applications 253, 255, and 257. And that'll do it for my
report. And I just want to say one thing. Congratulations to the class of 2025. It was a beautiful ceremony as always. Extremely hot for those of you who did attend if you have a family member um that was graduating. Um and as always, you know, beautiful day and it was great
to see the kids really enjoyed themselves. Always a nice event that congratulations. Thank you. Uh turn uh no report this evening. Administrator's report. Thank you, mayor. Uh please note that the DOS highway improvements project uh continues to progress. The contractor is near completion of the
concrete and drainage work with an additional 1 to two weeks uh expected before the milling and paving may occur. Uh detour signage is posted and residents are advised to use caution when driving through the area. Uh on tonight's agenda, we submitted a grant
application to the FY2026 uh NJ DOT municipal aid program for the Albany Avenue phase 2 improvements project. Uh which consists of the resurfacing of Albany a from Riverview Road to Arcadia Road. Uh and again, as
mentioned before, we are in the public bid process for Albany a from Riverdale Road to Riverview Road along with the full length of Waterlet A. Uh so we're looking to go out to bid soon and accept bids in the water contract uh this
summer for that project. Uh as discussed at the last burough council meeting, our state budget appropriations request uh to Senator Pacio uh remains pending with the governor. Uh I've heard uh as of today that the governor has reached a deal on the state budget. So, it's only
a matter of time before the the budget bill is is uh promulgated on the state website and we'll know whether or not uh our grant request for the DPW facility uh was awarded. Uh so, we're looking forward to that. Uh and if that does not
come through, again, our federal requests remain pending, which we won't know about until the end of the uh summer on that project. Uh I did get noticed the other day that Pay County uh has received their NJD NJ
flood hazard area permit for the replacement of the DO highway bridge. Uh I did reach out to them on a time frame. Uh so I'll keep you posted on that. Uh we did put out on Facebook as a reminder to the residents uh with with
all the heat waves going on again that the Pompton Lakes Library uh remains open as a cooling center. a place to cool off, charge your phones, your devices, uh open to the public. Uh the the hours for the library are posted on the Pompton Lakes Library website, uh
and on their Facebook page if anyone is interested in that. Uh again, our JCPNL public outreach session for rising utility costs uh has been rescheduled to July 2nd at 6:30 here at the Burough
Hall. Uh it'll be posted on channel 77 and YouTube as well. So we're looking forward to that. And again, as was touched on before, the recycling center is closed and will be open on or about Monday, July 7th. And again, residents can drop off grass at the DPW facility
uh Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. And recycling curbside collections uh remain on schedule. Thank you. Uh just to follow up with Jersey Central, uh you know, we've had some sporadic power outages in the last two weeks. It's very important if your power
goes out that you call Jersey Central and report the the uh the outage because they do request by numbers. So if only two people call, they say, "Well, that's not a priority." If 200 people call, it becomes a priority. I will tell you that the gentleman that's in charge of our region is very active. He does call me.
He does call the administrator and lets me know the time frames and how things are moving along and when things are going to happen. Um they've been pretty responsive up to today. You know, we've had a couple go out. One one of them was almost 800 people. Um and I think we got it back in two or three hours. So, uh
but it's very important to report uh if your power does go out. Any questions? Go ahead. President, please. Are you sure? Yeah. Okay. Um I I forget what you said last time I asked this. Was it supposed to be tonight or is it the July meeting where we are revisiting workshop
for the shared service agreements for Hudson County Motors and the other vendor for the DVW? We're I think we're looking to get through the other uh thing that's and then one other thing I just want to add perhaps we can do this suggestion when you go through the
ordinance for the social media pages to see which ones do need to be monitored by the bureau and which ones obviously don't. We can't tell them what they can or cannot do. But for the ones that we do have some oversight on, would it make sense in the banner to put a tagline that that says this page is monitored by
the Palms Lakes Pro Administrator? Yeah, we could look at that just so that we know when we're sharing content that the page is actually sharing the appropriate content and it's not just subject to whoever the admin is at that time's discretion if it's not overseen by the
bureau. Gives a little more credibility to the information that's being shared. Absolutely. Uh we'll look at that. Like I said, we we'll pull the uh ordinance that was adopted and maybe schedule a meeting to talk about it. Okay. Thank you. And just regarding both two questions, uh the JCPNL, so that's
that's an onsite um here. Yes. Here. So, and and apologize, Michael, because I was looking for it and I don't know if it came through. Did they provide an agenda on what's going to be discussed and will it be recorded or if there's any way we
can record for those that cannot attend but may be interested in um watching the video and see what they're discussing. Uh secondly, I know I reached out and we talked about placing a garbage can over in Pompton Square. Um you know, obviously cuz from the river cleanout, we saw there's a lot of garbage along
that pathway next to Starbucks and we thought that may be a good way to try to mitigate some of the garbage. It was all Wendy's and Starbucks. Thank you. I had reached out to the property maintenance officer to inspect the area. I'll follow up with him tomorrow and we could talk to the new
director of the bid of the um yeah the bid. He they actually have a new person a director now at the bid. He would be the person that get us the garbage can and put it there. So I'll give him a call tomorrow. Um and I just addressed can we film uh the other Yep. As you mentioned it'll be filmed and posted and
there will be an agenda the agenda prior. I just I'm waiting on the rep to get back to me. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Mayor, I just want to remind you the calendars, they're in the printer and they'll be mailed to you. Yes. So, I I know some people get very nervous if the calendar
doesn't come on June 29th. They will be here before July 1st. Um I know and I swear by the calendar. You know, I use it all the time. Uh and I tell new residents when they come into town, really the calendar is what you want to check to make sure that meeting dates and times and things happen. So, you will be receiving your calendars in the
first week of July. If for some reason you do not receive your calendar, you can come to Bur Hall. We'll have some available here, Liz. We will in a couple days after they go out. After they go out, if for some reason you don't receive it, then just come to Bur Hall and we'll get you one. It'll be updated
online as well. Correct. Yes. Mhm. Okay. Um, uh, up to you again. Workshop. Thank you, Mayor. Uh so on tonight's workshop I have in your packet a proposal uh from Kier's engineering uh back from the fall uh when when we were discussing
redevelopment uh quite a bit. Uh so now that the budget's been adopted the recommendation at the time was to fund this uh what we call design standards uh proposal. Uh so again we did fund it in the budget. We're here tonight just to get the blessing to move forward and
award a contract for the proposal. Uh just you know as a reminder and for the public uh this will take the existing DRA1 and DRA2 redevelopment area bulk and use standards uh and will be extracted from the zoning code into
their own standalone document. Uh also uh we're looking to design a comprehensive set of design standards that will be promulgated in the plan. Uh and also the proposal calls for three virtual and/or in-person meetings with
Burough officials and also up to three public hearings both with the planning board, the redevelopment agency and the mayor and council uh to ultimately get on the same page and adopt the plan subsequently. Uh so again the fee for
that is 20,000 uh that was included in the budget not to exceed 20 not to exceed 20,000 and you know we're recommending an award of a contract at the July 16th council meeting at which time we will you know convene and and get a group together to get this project
going. So what are you looking for right now? Just the consensus to move forward. Consensus to move forward. Everybody okay with that? Concerns, questions. Okay, you have consensus. Okay. Motion to open me for public comments. Council President Councilman Cruz. All
in favor? I against. Anyone from the public like to rest? Please step up. [Music] Can I Elaine blocky six Butler Street? Mr. Sarah, two weeks ago at the meeting, before the
meeting started, I sat in that back row and came over and leaned over and said to me, "You know, it might be illegal to not allow people to post on the Democratic Club page. You and I both know that's not true. I
don't know." And at the same time, I was getting messages second and third hand. Nobody contacted me directly and said, "Well, maybe I'm harming the reputation of the Democratic Club." No.
And um maybe people would be afraid of the entire police department. No. And maybe if I needed the police, they might not come. How offensive. How
offensive to smear an entire good, hardworking police department with that comment that they would be so vindictive. There's only two officers in over a 100red pages of legal documents who have been accused of that actual
behavior. Deborah Clark and Anthony Rodriguez. Do not intimidate me. It's beneath your office. Thank you. Anyone else from the public health? Please step on. [Music]
Mike Simone West app. Um, two things from the planning board meeting. I noticed that two of the TVs are very dim. You can hardly see them. I was wondering if there was any plan to kind of sync the three so they're all equal
brightness so that when we're on the desk we look at these two and then the public looks at the big one. Uh just I don't know how I'd look into that but uh two of the three were not really that usable. Um actually three things. Another one is I had mentioned at a
previous meeting months ago about possibly getting the logo of the burrow and the miscellaneous I don't know what you want to call the other logo that we have with the sunset or sunrise put on either side of that where it would be
like a u either a ring or a plastic shield. So, you got two bare walls and they would be both nice to have the town seal and to have the um I don't know what you want to call the other logo, but the one that's on our website to be installed here. I don't know what they
would cost. I don't think they're that much money, but if somebody could look into that, um I'd like to at least find out, you know, what you all would like to see and then what it would cost before I, you know, say anything more about it. I just don't have any idea
what the cost would be. The third thing with a little bit of humor added, some people who have been of older years have a little bit of hard hearing sometimes. Not me, of course, but the little black thing on the end of
that stretchy thing that's in front of you, it's called a microphone. If all of you would take that and put it near your mouth, we could hear better. But most people, not all, they're like, "Here's the microphone." And then you really
can't hear it here. And I doubt you'd hear it that well on the tape as well. Or get micro uh lapel microphones. Then you don't have to worry about it cuz it'll move with you. I just think it's a little easier to hear because a lot of times, especially when there's like
light comments made, meaning you're not talking about something that's uh your report, you can't hear what everybody's saying. And I think it should be something that we should not have to strain to hear. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else from Black Tour? Please step
up. I'll take her first. Hi, Paula Kelly to Summit Avenue Lakes. Obviously, um my questions, I have three questions basically that have just arised just from the things that I was listening to tonight and they're not as major as everything else that's been
going on. So, I apologize. Um, number one, I would some time ago there was discussion about the Wayne Community Center um offering a discount for Palton Lakes residents and I just wanted to know if there if that had been followed through on if that was something that
was happening. Was very excited to hear from Mrs. Kent, uh, Councilwoman Kent, that um, an ath athletic building is being considered in the town. My question about that is very premature. I I didn't say I said it's possible. It's
big. It's big enough to house one. So excited to hear those words. So excited as you know why. But I didn't say that. But um if that were a possibility, something that was being considered in Palms Lakes. My question is uh what
groups would be involved in being a part of that? uh would we consider having a boys and girls club or a YMCA that would include all of the community um including seniors which I am now one of. Um additionally I would like to know uh
what board is responsible for the ordinances for um having chickens and roosters on your property. Um, our community did have a recent concern that I am grateful uh to everyone involved that has what I believe has been settled
and um there is peace now in the neighborhood. But uh moving forward, I just want to be sure that uh if this should arise again if maybe that's something that could be revisited. Thank you all. Thank you. Anyone else? I saw Paul here.
Paul 120 rolling out. I come to you this time, not as an individual, but as a representative of the PMP Lakes Historical Commission. Um, at our last meeting, um, we discussed, as we always do, our disappointment that we don't have a place for displaying a lot of the
historical, uh, stuff that we have here. We understand that the civic center is going to give us some room upstairs. Uh but one of our members and uh he reluctantly agreed to let me mention his name, Ed Crowley, came up with an idea that where the new senior uh veteran uh
facility is going to be built on Ringwood Avenue, there appears to be some space there which would permit us to possibly, and this is a long shot, um obtain a uh caboose from one of the uh old railroads. and we have some
connections with uh Morris County Historical Society that we could put um a caboose along uh basically along the creek. I have a map here that that we drew up and I want to give it to you so you guys can look at it. What we'll be asking you for is to consider making a
request to the county that they give us space there to consider putting uh something like a caboose there that would allow us to display our historical documents. It's just, you know, you got to start somewhere. And so that is something that Ed and God bless him came
up with a great idea and I have all these uh he basically took uh uh the outline of the map that was there and put in what we were what we would propose. So if you would please consider making a request to the county. The worst they can say is no. And even if
they say yes, who knows what would happen, but we got to start somewhere. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else from public is out? Okay. Okay. Good evening again, Alexis Ringwood
Court, Fountain Lakes. Just want to make a clarification on my previous comments earlier tonight. And I'm going to read from the burough code. I guess it's chapter 2-41.4 Appointment of Chief and Assistant Chief Election of Officers. The chief and
assistant chief of the pump fire department shall be elected by the members of the fire department for the term of two years each. B. The members of the fire department at a meeting to be held um no later than Tuesday in January at 8:00 p.m. at fire headquarters, which
shall be known as the annual meeting, shall elect by ballot a captain and a first and second lieutenant from each designated company and the fire department. But set elections are subject to the approval of the burough council at its next regular meeting.
Should the council not approve of any or all set elected, the municipal clerks are so notified the chief of the fire department, it shall call a meeting of the firemen to be held at fire headquarters by 8:00 p.m. within one week of the date of said rejection. And should any of the officers elected at
this subsequent meeting meet with the disapproval of the burough council at its next regular meeting, the council should then forth with appointies and all officers so appointed shall hold that office until the next annual
meeting of the fire department. So this is also stated very clearly in the bylaws of the fire department that the chief appointment or the chief's election is subject to the approval of this council and unfortunately uh a
person was approved that is involved in uh affirmative action uh before harassment uh which has been documented by the investigative investigative uh law firm that. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else
from the public like to address? Please step up. Just quickly, just need your name and address. Yes. 1327. And out of curiosity, and I'm aware it happens often throughout the state when a municipality
when their police department has to um you know have an officer in charge take the place of the police chief. And there's a lot of different reasons for that. But by default is there do we have to now report
to do we have to now report is there a mechanism by default that the municipality the police department has to now uh report to the attorney general's office. Not that they're taking over the police department.
They're not. But I just didn't know if when this procedure happens it again by default is there a reporting mechanism or oversight until the situation's cleared up. Okay.
But I'm not aware of it myself. I could probably research it but I didn't know if uh that came into play. Yeah. Yep. Anyone else from the public like to address? Seeing no one can have a motion to close the public session. So moved. Council
President Palori second. Councilwoman Kent. All favor. Against. Okay. Mr. Blocky. Uh let's get the whole conversation step that was stated. You only picked out the pieces you wanted to say. I went to you and told you the Democratic Club has blocked me and other people from their site. And
your your response to me was I have nothing to do with that. I don't go on the site at all. Now you're telling me you're on the site, so I don't know which one to believe from you. There's no response. You had your chance, now it's my chance. Okay. Secondly, you you you mentioned a lot of things about
someone was threatening you or said that this will happen. That never came from me. You made scene that was coming from me. That never came from me. And I don't know where you got that information from and where who was telling you that, but it didn't come from anybody up here. So, thank you for your comments. Um, Mike
Simone, uh, yes, we I am aware of the televisions because I noticed it myself at the last couple meetings. Uh, we should, Michael, or maybe when we do this whole look at, we should take a look at the, uh, we talked about with Sharon the seals a while ago, putting the P and the L and and that seal on
each side. We had talked about that. I don't know what happened to that. Maybe we want to talk to Sharon again. She was kind of spearheading this whole room. So, it would look nice. I think it's a good idea. and the speakers. Uh the microphones are a great ear. We should all try to make sure everybody can hear. I I I understand that 100%. Uh Mr.
Riley, thank you for your comments. Uh it's funny, just today I asked the administrator where we are with the Wayne PL because I have people interested in wanting to do it. We are waiting for uh Wayne to sign off on the agreement and we did work out the deal and everything's good. We're just waiting. Is that correct, Mike? We're
just waiting for them to get back to us. Uh yes, we're waiting on a a further proposed shared service that will present to the governing body at a subsequent uh close session to So soon as they get that information back to us, then we'll vote on that and then we we should be able to move forward. The building uh I know Miss uh Councilwoman
Kent mentioned that that's way out into the future. Uh if that was to happen, which I think is a great idea, I I 100% support it. We would then try to, you know, get stakeholders involved with sports and and organizations in town. Um, I I should mention that if you've driven in the back, our civic center is
getting very close to being uh open again. They've added a second story. They'reing adding all new equipment inside. New kitchens, new floors, new windows, new doors, new bathrooms, and hopefully in the next couple months that'll be back open for groups to use for meetings, which we it's we could
surely use. And uh oh, the groups in charge. So, with the chickens right now, if there was a concern with the chickens, it would go to property maintenance. um and they're in charge of pushing out the ordinances and how they sit. If there was a change in ordinance, we actually have an ordinance committee. It's made up of certain council people
up here and they would uh address any changes to any ordinances that we make. How many? Oh, did you want to know how many chickens were you asking? Actually, what I wanted to know is how we would go about maybe revisiting an existing Okay, that would be through the ordinance
committee. Okay. Paul, I can gladly ask. I can gladly ask about it. Uh the only concern I would have with it, not me personally, would be that we would need parking with that also. So, they would we'd have to park people coming to the museum. They'd
have to give us the space within their parking to do that. But I will definitely bring that to the county. I will see what I can do with that. Al, I think we did follow the process that you talked about. uh Mike correct that uh we voted from the council here uh to pick the chief and that that we followed that
process. So that is the process you spoke of is the process that we did follow. Um the report uh I am not sure of any report and and maybe the attorney can is there any he's asking is there anything that has to be I don't know off the top of my head. We
I don't believe we have to report anything to the attorney general's office. Um but I suspect there's some filing with the uh with the state in terms of um pension and those sorts of things. But um as far as the attorney
general's office, I I do not think there's any filing that goes there. And I can ask, uh the captain chief right now, do do you know that how that works? Yes. The only thing that uh the uh county prosecutor is the chief law enforcement officer county and she is
notified of the change. She's notified of the change. Okay. You heard that. Great. Right from the horse's mouth. Okay. Um, privilege on the floor. Any privilege on the floor? I had one more question talking about the seals. I just tried to find the name of the artist and
I can't find it right now, so I'll look. But some time ago, I had asked you when we were taking down the painting in the civic center. That is that was painted a long time ago by an artist locally. So, some residents had reached out and asked me what was going to happen to it when
we were renovating the civic center. Is that in storage somewhere? It is. It's with the DPW. So, we are putting a lot of um museum pieces and history pieces in the lobby and we have a blank wall out there right out the door to the left. Can we hang that? Yeah, we could look at that. I'll talk to the buildings
and ground uh division tomorrow. It's part of the history and there's a little history collecting out there. Okay. Thank you. Any other floor? I just wanted to mention since there's a number of residents here um we have a new display case for the police department
uh on as you exit the building it we redid the entire uh foyer and it looks really really nice now. It has new rugs, new ceiling tiles, and uh the burrow and the police department went in with the uh PBA, and we got a nice display case
to show you all of their uh awards that they receive as well. So, on the on the left side is the Women's Club historic uh uh display cases, which they actually won a state award for this past uh May with the New Jersey State Federation of
Women's Club. And um and then we now have the police. So I just want to take a look at it. Take your time and then and and look at the different photos. It's really a beautiful thing to to to see the history of the town of the police department and and of course of the town in the women's club uh history
uh cases. All right. I just wanted to make you aware of that. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Yeah. I just have one thing. I know um on the beginning of Lincoln and I've had some residents um voice their concerns with the speeding again on Lincoln to
Roma and I think recently a dog was hit by a car and they took off you know and that that's horrible for obviously the owner um just so I live on remain so obviously I'm able to see a lot of it I see them as they're coming down our school's out and the kids are out as
well they got their free time before they leave off to knowledge. Um, can we revisit at least Maria if you can? Who's the leazison for the police department? Well, we got the chief right here. So, sorry. He's I'm sure he's writing it down right now. Yeah. Just, you know, and that's not the first time. And
speaking to one of the residents, at least in front of her house, she's had at least three accidents and two of them involved her mother's car and her car being parked out on the street. and the it it how she looks at it. She thinks
the lighting making the right onto Lincoln at night at the initial part of it that probably is not enough lighting is being provided as they're coming down I guess for whatever apparent reason they hit the car and two of them from my
understanding because she came out to talk to the police department they were drunk. Okay. So, um, and I think she told me she's up to three cars already that have been hit from her family. Visitor, her mom, and her car all on
Lincoln. So, I think at this point, I know residents, multiple uh, council meetings have all reported the speeding. I don't know what study needs to be done. I know many studies have been done in the past. I do think we need to revisit this again and figure out a
better solution um, because it's getting out of hand at this point. So, Chief, can we do a study and then do some patrolling on that? Yes. Uh, so just so you're aware, Lieutenant Package and traffic, he actually does uh studies, traffic studies, uh, and he has a
schedule that he goes through. Um, so once he gets back, uh, he's away this week. Once he gets back next week, I can meet him and see when the last time he's done study there. And if it's pretty recent, I can forward that information to you. Uh, can you give me that address
again? I didn't hear it. I'll get the address for you. Um, and just out of curiosity and not and if it's done, I would like to understand if there's a pattern of locations that are more prominent with accidents versus others.
So, my understanding Lincoln is a is a big one, but it's not to say throughout town, whether it was on southside or the north side. And if there's an existing pattern for one particular street over another for a high volume of accidents, I think it's important for us to understand that. Sure. All right. So, I
should be able to look at that with our system and go through and see where where our hot spots are. Thank you. Any other ones questions? All right. Just before we go, uh, we go to our once a month meeting in July and August. So, our next meeting is July 16th. Then we have one meeting in August and then we'll go back to two meetings in in
September. Uh, we're actually going to go into close session. So, I'm going to have to ask everybody to leave, but let me get there first. A motion to adjourn into close session. So, if you want to come out, we're out. Yes. Uh, in close session, we discussed negotiation. Motion to
adjurnn. Motion. Second. Personnel matter. Oh, and personnel matter. You're right. I'm sorry. And personnel matters. Um, uh, motion to adjurnn. I'm sorry. Council president Paul Dory. Who? Second. Councilman Hinton. All in favor? I. Again. Okay.
Michael.