We're ready. Everybody following is the agenda for the regular B council meeting of the Burough Hampton's mayor and council the mun municipal corporation in the county of the state. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. on July 16th, 2025 in the
municipal building 25 Lex Avenue, Huntington Lakes, New Jersey 07442. Consistent with the open public meetings act, meeting will be open for public comment and shall be in accordance with terms and conditions of the burough's
municipal code and bylaws. Thank you. Please stand for a flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Please bless this mayor and council as they deliver on the best of Hampton Lakes. In conformance with the open public meeting, 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 the municipal building mailed to all have requested and paid for same and published in the suburban trend. Roll call, please. Mayor Sarah here. Council President Alidori here. Councilman Cruz here. Councilman Hington here.
Councilwoman Kent is excused. Yes. Council Quinn here. And Councilman here. Also with us tonight is Burough Turnber and Burrow Administrator Michael Carelli.
And you'll see we have our assistant clerk helping us out. Liz is going to be out out of action for a little while. She has to have some she had a little accident. So, we thank Kathy for taking the time and energy for everything you're doing in the office and covering all those meetings. So, thank you. Uh I have no presentation. So, we're open
meeting for public comments. Can I have a motion? Motion. Councilman Bennon, Council President Polydori. All in favor? Against? Anyone from the public like to address? Good evening again, George Paul, 11:04 KFax Avenue. We had some heavy rains on
Monday. Guess what? My property was destroyed more and more. It's getting dangerous for me to walk out to the shed because the amount of wash out. However, I did get courtesy from Mr. Carelli
uh about start at least the budget and the contractor has been hired to uh reconnect the pipe from 11:02 to the pipe at Miller Drive. Again, as a taxpayer, I I want to apprise the
council that this was proposed in 20ou 2014 and the new engineer firm says they've got flow. We'll definitely have over a 100 yards of Kfax Avenue ripped up for an indefinite period of time. Start date
unknown. Hopefully, Mr. Carelli will get it uh sometime next week. That's hopefully. Great words. Hopefully. Okay. Considering that both storm drain pipes were put in at the same time, why would one be deeper than the other? All right.
Don't waste the taxpayers's money, please. All right. no planner, budget uh or contractor to decommission the pipe at 1102 Kfax Avenue as this process goes on. When will the bureau stop destroying my property? I'm getting a
little tired. Why can't we work not sequentially as far as any of this these processes go, but concurrently? Why aren't, you know, no plan, no contractor in order to plug a pipe, okay? No
addressing of the damage that's been done on my property. No budget, no nothing. I mean, you're wasting a lot of time, my time especially, and your own, of course. That's it. I mean, I can't believe how you run this place. Thank you.
Anyone else from the public like to address? Please step up. Hela Zablaki six Butler Street. For the last 5 years, Republican candidates have refused to participate in that most basic level of civic
engagement, a nonpartisan candidates night sponsored by the League of Women Voters. It turns out that this arrogant choice to deliberately stonewall the public is just the tip of the screw the voters iceberg.
Last year, Mayor Sarah told the public that the candidates would not only not attend a candidates night, but would not provide a reason for not participating, but we could email them. And so we did.
Still no answer. In fact, I've me emailed the council numerous times over the last seven or eight years and have never gotten a reply. Never. One email was an invitation to honor a retiring library staff employee who was being
recognized by our then and now Congresswoman Mikey Cheryl. No response, not even sorry I can't make it or please extend my congratulations. Nothing. So, we're left with 5 minutes
at a public meeting and even then the answers are non-answers or we can't talk about that or that's up to the D, the county, the state, the governor, the board of education, the fire department, the army corps of engineer, the police department, the first aid squad or the
attorney fill in the blank of diversion and distraction. This willful pattern of non-engagement leaves few arenas for getting information to the public. Social media by necessity has filled in the gaps.
Contrary to Mr. Sarah's twisting of my words at the last council meeting, I am not on social media. I've always believed the social media will be the downfall of civilization. I still believe that. But now I can see
where platforms can be used for the good, including the town we call home. There were members of the public at the June 30th hearing about as serious an issue facing the council as we've seen in years. Why weren't you there? If
you've been told you can't or shouldn't attend, you're getting bad advice. It's a public hearing. In spite of knowing the details of two lawsuits against the burrow, you appointed Anthony Rodriguez named on
dozens of pages of the claims officer in charge. Maria Kent and Randy Hidden obliquely referred to voting for Rodriguez because the burough attorney told them they could or should. More bad
advice. You need to start thinking for yourselves and doing the right thing. You know that the Boer administrator filed for a waiver with the Civil Service Commission immediately after getting the first lawsuit.
That waiver would exempt Rodriguez from taking the test for police chief and prevent other eligible officers from competing. Why do you continue to protect two officers who have a history of abusive
retaliatory behavior and failed to protect your own police department? By the way, that July 2nd email to the burough administrator has not been answered yet. Check out the list of open requests
online and see how many have been delayed or not answered. In several cases, the responses were spurious replies that didn't answer the question. There have been a few articles on corrupt cops floating around. Officers
Pepe and Barahona are referenced in corruption, abuse, and more. A closer look at misconduct is promised in terminated cops. Where are they getting this information? Is the burrow
continuing to further malign the reputation of Pmpton Lakes officers? Aren't you concerned about more damage charges? How can you sleep at night knowing your actions enable the public
shaming of good cops? As I wait for some attempt to make this right and a willingness to be honest with the public, I continue to read agendas, minutes, budgets, and I find
more questionable hirings, questionable firings, and questionable transfers of funds. After years of appointing one board attorney and one municipal bond council at annual January
reorganizational meetings, I'm sorry. More attorneys have been added in recent years, five this year, including a special law enforcement. I'm not finished. No, you are finished cuz the five minutes is up. This is the first time that you are so
concerned about time. I'm almost done. No, no, it's not about that. Let me understand this correctly. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You had yourselves a special hurry. Let me have to call somebody up. Excuse me, Mr. Mayor. She can ask for more time. She can. And I just did. And this is exactly You didn't ask for more time.
Okay. I need more time. Okay. I will take a call. Would you like to give her more time? Yes. Yes. After years of Hold on. Hold on. I got to go through the whole group. Oh, suddenly we're formal now. Okay. Go ahead. I'm sorry. After years of appointing one board
attorney and one municipal bond council at annual January reorganizational meetings, more attorneys have been added in recent years, five this year, including a special law enforcement
labor attorney. Let me understand this correctly. You got yourselves a special lawyer for the police department and wound up with two multi-million dollar lawsuits. An environmental officer would have been
cheaper and more effective. Why haven't you appointed one yet? I had grave concerns about the town I call home. Lovely photos on the town calendar aren't enough to cover up years of lazy
and insular leadership. This isn't over and I'll be here to ask questions until it is. And my last question for now, will you be coming back into public session to take any action after the closed meeting tonight? Thank you for the extra time.
Thank you. Anyone else from the public like to address? Seeing no one have a motion to close the public session. Motion. Who's that? Councilman Hinton. Councilman Hinton. Who second? Second. Uh Councilman Quinn. All in favor? I against.
Okay. Um I'm happy to hear that we're making progress. That's a big deal. We're making progress. I I've spoken to Michael numerous times over this and we are trying to get a date. Hopefully that will be next week. We have to follow the advice of the engineer. The engineer is the one who
runs this project. We as a council or as an administrator don't have the knowledge to say this pipe is right, this pipe is wrong. That is up to our engineers to decide that. So we put all our faith in what our engineers do. So, uh, I know that you might feel some things are different or not right, but we're going by the advice of the
engineer. Secondly, we we can't run together because the engineer feels we should fix this concern first and then we will definitely, as you know, address your property and your neighbor's property that is going to be repaired, but you do plan ahead for it. You can keep can't talk. You can't I'm sorry, you can't you don't have to do anything sequentially.
That's that's the way the engineers want us to handle. So, thank you. Uh, Mr. Valky, thank you for your comments. You can't even get a start date for the contract that you already paid. Thank you. Contract two. Okay. Motion to approve the following minutes. Uh regular meeting minutes June 25th, 2025. Close session meeting
minutes June 25th, 2025. Motion. Council President Baldori. Councilman Cruz. All in favor? I. Oh, we got a present, one present. Uh Councilman Bennett. Benning. Yes. Um, bills and claims authorizing payment
of bills uh in the amount below. Uh, can I have a motion? Motion. Councilman Bennett. Second. Councilman Hinton. All in favor? I against that agenda. Does anybody need any removed or discussed? Um,
no. That's all right. Never mind. Uh, yeah. I would like to talk about 25 250 and 251 really in combination. Okay, that's it. Um, well 252, but I think we can let
that one slide. Okay, just Okay. Okay. Except for 51 and 52. Kathy, whenever you're ready. Whereas the mayor and burough council of the burrow of pumpin lakes has reviewed the consent agenda consisting of various proposed resolutions and whereas the
mayor and burough council of the burrow of pumpin lakes does desire to remove resolutions for individual action from the agenda. Now therefore, be it resolved that the following resolutions on the consent agenda are hereby approved. 25-242
through 25-260 and removing 25250 25251 252 for separate action. Okay. Can I have a motion? Motion. Councilman Bennett. Second.
Councilman Cruz. All in favor? I against. Okay. You could combine 50 and 51 if you just read them. Okay. 25 to 50. Authorize change order number one for Joyce Highway improvements project.
And you can read 512 if you want. Uh 251 authorize payment application number one for Doors Highway Improvements Project. Okay. You had a question. Yeah. Um, I have an issue with um
I've had an issue in the past. I'll have probably have an issue in the future unless we rectify it. Um, I was looking at the amounts. This is has to do with traffic control on doors highway construction project
and um the police department who I support 110% always have always will um they go through jobs for blue. Now, I was looking at the numbers um and I had a discussion with our
administrator about it and um the numbers are astronomical. Um I got to say sitting here um the police department is my number two concern. My number one concern is the taxpayers have
pumped the light and the costs of an officer on traffic control are what they are through the PBA. No, we understand that Jobs for Blue charges a $20 service
fee per hour of officer working. Then they have an administrative fee of 8%. On top of that, they have two fees. When I tried to figure out the amount on
the 8%, no matter what I did with my little calculator, I couldn't figure it out. Then thinking about it later, I'm well, wait a minute. at the officer's fee of $95 an hour, which is
understandable. They add the $20 on top of that 95 for 115 and then they take 8% of that number and charge us. So, in other words, they're taking 8%
of their $20 that they're charging us and the service fee, which to me, the poor taxpayer of which I and the rest of the he everybody here is paying and that's like a double bubble in my book. So, this really needs to be looked at.
Well, those are I'll let I'll let both are or captain and Michael, you can start with why why it goes that way and then you could jump in AJ if you have anything. Yeah. So I'm going to defer to the officer in charge. They really manage the jobs for blue system. So you know
Captain Rodriguez is here to discuss further. So how's everybody doing? Um so just to give a little background um when I was a lieutenant we uh we proposed and went to the jobs for blue system for a number of reasons. uh
mainly being is that the burrow wasn't in compliance with a number of issues uh having to do with um some financings. So basically um I'll give you a rundown on why we
went to why we went to jobs for blue when we did. So there was a big accounting benefit and financial controls that was that needed to be considered because we were so out of uh compliance. So jobs for blue uh invoices
all our vendors directly. They collect the payments. They pay officers promptly. Um they ensure that there are no payment delays. Uh they reduce the risk of uh bad debt and provide a complete audit trail for the
municipality. Also, it segregated the duties. So, up until we went to jobs for blue, myself, Lieutenant Kapaki, uh, Chief Clark at one time, even I think Mo, we were the ones tracking down uh, and scheduling
these jobs and for for like billing purposes and things like that. So when I mean the segregations of duties by manage by having them manage the scheduling and payments externally job job forblue reduces the risk of fraud, favoritism, ethics violations. It also
eliminates internal conflicts of interest and promotes transparency. Um they also take care of all the W2 and tax reporting. Um now as for regulatory compliance with
New Jersey um we were we were not in compliance with any of that regulatory. So for a number of years I was uh speaking with Kevin Bole because we needed to create uh an account um
I forget what it was called it. It's an account so that this way an escrow an escrow account. I was missing the word. You need to create an escrow account so that these contractors can put in the money for these projects and then once that and then that's where the
the where you guys would then pay our officers. We didn't do that. So, we were out of compliance because we were paying out of taxpayer money, flaunting that to the officers and then and then waiting for these entities like
PSNG, JCPNL, and whoever else was doing jobs around town to do that, which which is against the law. So what they do essentially is that um is that uh they
stay within the local guidelines or they stay within the local financial board of the DCA guidelines. So they ensure the proper tracking of revenue. They c they categorize uh there's cate categorization
uh of municipal admin fees uh that route through trust accounts if necessary per the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs DCA and local finance board standards. So the New Jersey DCA best it also complies with the New Jersey DCA
best practice compliance. So it supports municipal scorings uh by meeting standards for ethics, internal controls and financial oversight. Um and then insurance liability and risk. Um job ensures vendors provide
proof of insurance. They maintain documents of all assignments reducing liability and exposure to the burrow. So in summary, the compliance benefits for accounting and auditing uh jobs for blue provides you guys with full documentation, prepayment and tax
reporting, labor and union rules. So they enforce all our all the department CBA limits and scheduling protocols. So that's all uploaded into the program uh by what our contract states that we negotiated with the bureau, the PBA
negotiated, and it's all automated. uh municipal finance law. They uh provide proper uh fee routing and trust account support, state oversight. Uh so you get support from the DCA best practices and ethics rules and then
liability and risk again the proof of insurance and clear chain of responsibility for for the borrow. So I think the one thing that the councilman's asking so everybody understands if it's PSEG or one of those other companies, they are paying those fees. We are not. So the only time we
have to pay those fees is when it's a burrow project. Correct. So uh it's not what do you mean taxpayers aren't paying the officers the utility company's paying if it's a euro but if it's a a company if it's our our project we're paying for
it. Yeah. Yes. And then the burrow also charges a fee and collects a fee on top of so the contracted rate that the PBA contracted in the CBA is $95 an hour. Um and then the burrow collects the fees
for the vehicle and for other other administrative roles that they may have but those things are wage. So like when we uh so like for instance for the school so that is considered also a road job. It goes through uh jobs for blue cuz it's security andor construction.
So, let's say one of our class 3 special officers can't man a post in one of the schools and we have to fill it with one of our officers. We call goes through jobs for blue jobs for blue puts it out and then you'll have an officer in the school covering those posts. Uh but the
town waved the administrator's fees uh for for those instances, right? I think his concern is the 20% and the and the percentage on top of the 20% which that we do pay as a town when that is a town job there. There is I don't and I'll have to go back to our administrator about this. There's
nothing we can do to change that, is there? Uh we can negotiate that into a contract with jobs for blue and that potentially any town job could be exempt from the admin fee. That's something that the captain and I could look into. All right. I think that's a good I I agree that that's something we should
look into. I just for clarification. So the the percentages and the monies and everything that is set is set by the jobs for blue. That's correct. Yes. Except the payment except the hourly hour. That's fine. I get the the hourly is fine. But I think just to clarify so everybody understands it isn't the
burrow that's setting those percentages. It is the jobs for blue that is setting those percentages and that's something obviously we can consider for renegotiation if it need be. Um but again taxpayer is the big piece to this. So that's what I want to make sure I think. So the problem at the time when we initially went to this is that you'd
have companies like PSEG, JCPNL, uh we do new, as you can see, they're all around town. We do a number of jobs. We didn't have the the the financial structure to go after those payments. So it would literally be me and Mike or me
and Derek. We'd be itemizing these things and sending them the invoices. And we'd be lucky if we got payment in a timely manner and it it it adds up. What jobs for do what jobs for blue basically provides for us is that we don't need
that escrow account. Uh when I was doing payroll and operations, uh they send they send me a report and they send payroll report. They list everybody out that had the jobs in that particular pay period with a monetary
amount. And then what happens is they send the money over through an a transfer to the burrow. So they're like the middleman. They're fronting the money so we don't have to have escrow accounts because even with those escrow accounts you're talking if we needed to do a project unless we wanted to be out of compliance
and it would it would totally hold off the projects until that money was in was in the system because you wouldn't be able to pay the work. You wouldn't be able to pay anything. Right. So I think what what what I'm understanding and and I I think it's a concern rightly so that we should look into next time we negotiate with jobs for blue. It would only affect the jobs
that are town jobs because the other fees come out of like PS&G and Jersey Central they pay those fees out front already. Yeah. But you have to understand also not only JCPNL like you're correct in that but the MUA also has to pay those.
Now that's our town entity. That's our water department and sewer department when they have police on traffic control. They're paying jobs for blue also. So they got to pay for Yeah. So they have to pay for the officer. And I I'm not I don't think they have to pay the administrative fee to the town. I could
be wrong, but I didn't think they have to pay an administrative fee to the town. But yes, they are on the hook for paying the other fee associated and they are a separate entity. They have nothing. Yes, they are. But I mean us I'm representing the taxpayer and the taxpayer has to pay their water bill and
sewer bill. So those added costs of course the MUA has to pass on to the customer, right? I mean I I know we've negotiated. So we can negotiate it cheaper. Is there any other company besides Jobs for Blue that does this? Yeah, there are there are there are other companies
we can maybe look into when it comes up, right? It's a yearly contract. Yeah, we're definitely going to look into it. The one thing I just want to rehash is that if we were to do it in house, our invoice for the month of June came in and you know there there's
dozens and dozens of company jobs that come through PSNG, Verizon, JCPNL. Our our invoice, not that we have to pay, but the invoice through Jobs for Blue accounts for $40,000. So if we were to have to do it inhouse, we would have to
front in our budget all these funds to cover the output of the salary and wage budgets and then seek reimbursement through the utilities, the private companies, the MUA, the the whatever it may be. Uh so ultimately if we did it in house it probably would cost more
because we have to we have to put it in our budget which would make the tax levy higher that year and somebody has to be paid to do that and then we would seek reimbursements but ultimately the taxes would be higher because somebody would also have to physically do all that paper you know police or or administration would have
to handle that. So I I hear you. We're going to look into it. Okay. We can just review it to make it as cheap as possible for the taxpayer. That's all I'm looking for. Thank you. I think we'll report back at the next meeting. Okay, we'll get some information on different administrative fees through different comparable companies. Yes, quotes maybe, you know, what we can
do for a waiver of our, you know, our fees for our jobs. Uh, so we'll report back on that for the next meeting. I have one other question on Dos Highway. I might as well ask now. I was going to ask later, but um a couple residents reached out and asked me if we used to be and then hadn't been, are we double yellow striping that road again when it's finished?
I believe that the road will be striped and also have a bike lane on each side. It's either each side or one side. I have to check on that. So, I'll follow up with you tomorrow. Um, but I do believe there's a a variety of striping. You know, the street has not been
striped for years. Crosswalks, double yellow line, bike lanes. It's really a pedestrian safety uh improvement. Yeah. The residents felt it became like a speedway without the striping. So, it it'll also traffic on the area, which is good. Okay. Perfect. Okay. So, while the officer is here.
Yeah. Well, is it about just about this? No. No. Let's let's do this first. Okay. Can I read those two? Thank you. Is there a motion? Can I have a motion on on uh 25250 and 251? Motion. Council President Paldori. Second. Second.
Councilman Quinn. All in favor? I roll call. Oh, it's a roll call. Roll call. Roll call or no? Uh what do we do? Roll call. Roll call. Okay. Roll call. Councilman Cruz. Yes. Roll. Councilman Newton.
What is this? Um yes with uh reviewing those costs in the future. Yes. Uh Councilwoman Andrew is absent of excused. Sorry. Counciloman Palador. Yes. Councilman Quinn. Yes.
And Councilman Bennett. Yes. All right. So we'll get through this then. If you have a question, we'll just ask that when we get to the administrator's report if you don't mind. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Um we're Oh, this one. Uh 25.
Did you have a question about 252? About what? Uh 20 252. You pulled 252. I think you were saying I was I was Yeah, that's okay. All right. It's pulled. So we we still are going to need a All right. So let's read it. Go ahead. For the record. For the record. Go ahead. Read it out.
Um so 25252 appoints Michael Carelli as recording secretary to the historic preservation commission. Can I have a motion? Motion. Council President Polydori. Second. Councilman Hinton, roll call, please. Councilman Cruz,
yes. Councilman Hinton, of course. Yes. Council woman, yes. Councilman Quinn, yes. Councilman Ben. Yes. Okay. Ordinances. Just a one.
Two. Two. Two. Okay. Ordinances will be presented for second reading and final adoption August 13, 2025. Ordinance 2521,
an ordinance amending chapter 19, building and construction of the revised general ordinances of the burrow pump and amending the fee for continuing certificates of occupancy. Motion to approve ordinance 25-21 for
introduction. Motion. Councilman Vennon, Councilman Hinton. Discussion. A little discussion. Go ahead. Question. Can you walk us through that? Sure. So, as part of uh as part of my office's annual review of all of our
fees, uh you know, in anticipation of the upcoming budget cycle, uh some you know, some department heads have gotten back to me uh namely the construction official. Uh he is recommending to increase the fee for the residential uh
certificate of continued occupancy. Uh right now, our fee is $75 for residential and two $200 for commercial. Um, I did include a print out of comparison fees from several other
towns. Um, you know, Oakland, it's $100 for residential. Uh, Boopin, it's 150. Uh, Bloomingdale, it's $100. So, you know, we felt that it it's time to increase the fee. It's been over 15 years since
we've done so. Uh, this is one of our highest revenue generating fees that we have. Um, and really it's just to bring us with all of the other surrounding municipalities on this fee. I just wanted to note though, we did look at the commercial fee and we are in
comparison with others. So, we're not recommending increasing the commercial fee, although we don't necessarily get a lot of that. Um, we felt it was sufficient the way it is now. Uh, so that's the recommendation. And residential gone from 75 to I'm sorry, uh, 75 to 90 to 90.
Yeah. Okay. Uh, did I get a uh motion? I don't remember. Yeah, roll call, please. Councilman Cruz, yes. Councilman Hinton, yes. Uh, Councilwoman Palori,
yes. Councilman Quinn, yes. Councilman Bennett, yes. Okay. Uh, ordinance 2522, an ordinance amending and supplementing the salary ranges of the employees of
the Burough Hel County and state of New Jersey. Motion to approve ordinance 25-22 for introduction. Motion. Councilman Vennon. Second. Councilman Hinton. Discussion. Any discussion? Please. Go ahead, Mike. Thank you. Uh, this just sets a a
recommended range for for the position of full-time confidential secretary. uh it means nothing as to actual pay. Uh it just sets up, you know, a range for potential increases and make sure we're compliant. Uh you know, for the public, the governing body really can't increase
a salary unless it's within the established range in the municipal code. Uh so this just sets up a range for this new position uh and adds it to our schedule of all of our salaries. So thank you. Okay, roll call, please. Councilman Cruz.
Yes. Councilman Hansen, yes. Councilwoman Paladori, yes. Councilman uh Quinn, yes. Councilman Bennett, yes. Okay, thank you. Okay, under my report, um I did a couple weddings uh in the
last couple weeks. Um tomorrow is my big camp day where I go speak to the kids in camp. Uh and they ask their questions of me. Sometimes they're great questions, sometimes they're a little weird, some of the questions. I'm not going to lie. Um but I enjoy it a lot. Uh, I either take the kindergarteners in and have
them ask questions, which you can imagine they don't really have much to say except it's hot or I need something to drink. That's basically to say, but they got a nice button, so it's a nice day. Uh, I did attend the fifth grade STEM summer camp program, which they have a STEM program, believe it or not,
for the fifth grade, and they they presented a plan of something they would like to put together. Their plan was um why people don't or can't swim in the uh lake and you know they came back with the observation of which we know already
it's mostly from um uh animal feces and and and pollution from fertilizers. So their their suggestion was we should look into a town pool and they had diagrams and they did a great presentation. It was really nicely done and I congratulations to them all. Uh I
attended a personnel meeting. I attended uh the person the um planning board meeting was cancelled last night. There was no agendas on it. We are still working towards the civic center. You can see they're putting a roof on it now. Once they get the roof on, they'll start working on the inside of that building. Uh some uh just some to hear
some nice news. I did get some thank yous from some residents. One resident called to thank us for fixing the walkway at Hersfield Park. uh they she walks there every day and we did fill in temporarily those uh potholes and she was very happy to see us that we filled those uh in. Another resident called to
thank her for the removal of a tree. Was that on Albony Mike or where was that? That one I James Terrace James Terrace. Uh she was very thankful to see that tree came down come down because she thought it was dangerous. Um and that is my report. Council President Paul Dory.
Thank you. Uh I attended the walk out for our recently retired police chief Derek Clark. I wish him the best in his next chapter of his life and uh I thank our interim chief AJ for joining us this evening and being present at this
council meeting. Um, I also attended along with Councilman Cruz and our burough administrator a meeting in regards to the prevention coalition grant money which is due to expire this year and some possible suggestions on how we can take a look at
the budget for additional funding to continue that program because it has become a valuable part of the community and it's something that we would like to work on being able to continue uh pending the approval of another grant. We will have to find alternate sources.
So, we are working on that. Um, then just I just gave the posters to our brewer administrator from Lincoln and Lennox School for the park naming contest for Hersfield. So, hopefully we'll have the winners for that after this week's open space meeting and then a to be determined date for a ribbon
cutting ceremony. I believe we said September, correct? September. And then along the lines with the parks, um, I think I had mentioned this to you, but I just want to mention it again. It was brought to my attention for much smaller gatherings. For example, if
someone were to want to have a wedding at the gazebo or the park and keep it under a certain um person quantity of attendance, we could potentially wave the requirement to provide proof of insurance because it is cost
prohibitive. Uh I can we look at pulling and and put in the next workshop a revisiting of that ordinance to see if there's something we can do for perhaps 15 and under. Uh yes, I reached out to the risk manager to get his opinion on it. Uh I think I'll schedule an
ordinance committee and then bring it to workshop uh to discuss any recommended changes for Was there did they see there being an issue with not on phase? You know, it's something that we have discretion on. Okay. Uh but you know, it's something that we're looking into. Okay. So, it's it would be a nice way to, you
know, allow people that were just going to have three or four people in attendance, not have to get proof of insurance. Um, and then also, uh, I see here we approved the ordinance to move forward with the design plan for redevelopment. I know we are forming a
design committee. I would like to be added to that committee when we formalize it. Uh, so when we it's time to put that together, I'm putting my request in to be a part of that. And just two last things. I saw your email regarding the admins
for social media. You pulled the ordinance. Can we please put that on for the next workshop also so that we can have a discussion about how we're going to proceed with that? Yes. And I'm going to cover it briefly in my report. Okay. Because I did get another phone call today and it seems like it could be
best resolved if some of that um power was kind of put in a in a different setting. Yeah. Stop some of the fighting. Okay. And then lastly, um I think I mentioned this to you also, but I don't know if we made any progress on it. We have been paying someone to remove bamboo in large
patches from around town. The removal of it, which was costly down the street from where I live, um on the other side of Joe Grill off of Walnut, is regrowing. So, if we need to send someone out, I'd like to ask that we look at a different
vendor this time, someone that that has some experience in removing that. It is a difficult species to remove. So, before that gets I mean, it looks like more is growing back than what was removed. So, before that gets out of control, perhaps we can address it.
Okay. I did speak to Dan about that and we're kind of coming up with a plan. So, all right. Good. And that is my report. Thank you, uh, Councilman Quinn. Thank you. Uh the library has uh installed an air conditioner for their second floor. They
had a couple hiccups at the beginning, but it is working well and installed at this point. In addition at the library, they are having a library card design contest now through this 13th of September. Uh details at pmptonlakes
library.org. There are three categories, kids, teens, and adults. uh winners in each. Uh in addition, uh flood advisory board is in need of two new members after two have left. Uh they do very important
work, uh helping keep prices low on flood insurance in the town and many other things. Uh anybody interested can please email me. Uh, and finally I finally used the recycling center after a lot of work has been done there today
and a million times better. Yeah, looks great. Yeah, it was nice, easy, fast. It's nice and easy in and out. I think it's really a big improvement. Thank you. Y uh Councilman Bennett, I have no report. Mayor, you have no report. Okay, Councilman Cruz. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a brief
report uh for the board of education. I attended a meeting last night where Dr. Jane Tannis gave the results from the NJ GPA. And just for the the public to understand what this is, this is the New Jersey graduation proficiency assessment. And um basically what it
does is to make sure that our juniors are ready um for graduation. Oops. uh it consists of ELA and mathematics component to be administered to students in grade 11 for the purposes of meeting the state graduation assessment requirement. I'm not going to go into
the whole details. This you can get from the district website, but I will say that we tested on or above the state standard, which is excellent. You know, again, it goes to our educational system that we have here. Um and that will do it. The next meeting I believe is
August 18th. I'm not missing. You might want to mention we we did have a um ordinance committee meeting. I'm sorry. August 19th. Oh yes. And going to uh President Palador, we did have a ordinance committee meeting again to discuss um the uh coalition. Obviously with a
lot of the um unknowns with federal funding grants and things of that nature, we're looking to obviously revisit and see what other options we have uh to continue this program because there's a valuable program here in the town. Well, we also talked about the Lambert Street. Oh, the Lambert Street. Yes. So, Lambert
Street. So, we'll talk about that more, but you can just say we Okay. So, we discussed Lambert Street right now. So for those of you Lambert Street is a very small street. Uh from my understanding the distance there with a vehicle already parked on one side of that uh makes it a hazard for the fire department or the police department or
EMS to go through that street of an emergency to come around. So we're just looking right now. An assessment was done and a study was done by the police department. Um they came up with the measurements and identified this particular uh hazard in that road right now. So, uh, we're going to be looking into that and, um, we'll provide an
update obviously at the next council meeting and we're ready to, uh, move forward with the update. Great. Thank you, Councilman Hinton. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I just want to apologize to the trail committee that I missed the maintenance day. Um, I got my
calendar a little messed up, but I want to congratulate them. They did a nice job working on the trails. Um, attended the open space committee meeting. Um, Councilwoman Kent would give a more extensive report, but she's not here. Um, we had one of the members
found a piece of property, which I known about for 30 years, but I didn't think about it myself, uh, on Broad Street. It's 4 acre lot and um he's trying to touch base with the owner um to see if maybe either open space or the burrow
can buy the lot and do something for recreation for the community. So um the gentleman is uh working hard on it. So uh we'll bring more to the table um as time goes by. Um let's see. Um,
with open space, there was a couple issues that came up. Um, the Lakeside water fountain does not work at all. Hurstfield Park, uh, the lower one did not work and, um, irrigation at Lakeside Park is not working. Now, I think uh,
Mrs. Kent had brought these issues up with our administrator and uh, I think the DPW is working on all those. The way I understand it, uh, fountains were working except one piece of one fountain. Yeah, that you could fill the bottles but you couldn't drink from them. Right. And then the water was turned off. Somebody turned off the water
inside the Okay. So, uh the open space meeting. Those are the issues that came up. Um, I had also been asking about um I have a resident whose uh husband passed on and
uh grew up in Papa Lakes on Whitney Avenue and uh ran around Hersfield as a kid his whole life and she wants to donate a bench in his honor. um McBain, Jim McBain, and uh her brother-in-law, Barry McBain, who's done a lot of work
in town, and um so I've been working talking with our administrator, and he said he's working on a policy for bench donations. Is this true? Uh yes. uh with a former request uh from council president Paulori uh at a prior
meeting. I'm working on a uh bench bench donation policy, excuse me, for the August 13th council meeting. Okay. For workshop. Good. So, we look forward to that. Um I attended the uh senior trip to Wind
Creek Casino. Wow. And the casino cleaned me out. Nice. I would have went that. Well, couldn't couldn't help it. Couldn't win anything, but uh it was fun. Jenna Costello ran a trip. Uh we had a full bus with St. Mary
seniors and uh Golden Agers. So, it was a fun time and the seniors are looking forward to the picnic uh coming up, the senior picnic at the Elks on August 16th. So, we're looking forward to that. And uh that is my report. Okay.
Um I had one other thing. Oh, I did see in the newspaper we had notice to the biders for the Willow Street project and um they haven't I don't think they've been opened yet. Is that correct? It's in my report.
Okay. But I was just reading the bid and at a point in time when we first came up with this project, um Councilman Venon's wife, Lauren, um landscape architect, I couldn't shine her shoes for the knowledge she has. Uh we talked about
removal of trees and uh we were talking about diameter of a 30-inch tree should be replaced with 10 3-inch trees, but uh that's not costly. That's cost prohibitive. And uh so we decided through you, Mr. Mayor, that we would go
one for one on trees. And so I'm reading it and it says we're going to remove 120 trees and replant 111. How is that one for one? I can't talk about what I don't know what I don't know anything about that. So Well, I just read that in the paper. So could be Miss Brown. I don't know. Well, yeah, it could be Miss Brown. Insurance
is good. And uh that is my report. Okay. Thank you. The attorney any report? Uh nothing this evening. I don't administer report. Thank you, mayor. Uh so the Dors Highway improvements project uh is undergoing uh and is expected to be completed by the
end of the week for the uh drainage and concrete work. Uh milling is expected to begin on July 22nd through July 23rd and paving from July 24th to July 25th. Um res residents can expect detours and to
please plan accordingly during this time. Uh the schedule does remain weather dependent and the public has been notified and will be notified of any changes to the schedule. Uh to Councilman Hinton's point, uh we are accepting bids for the Willowfield
Improvements Project on Wednesday, August 6th at 10:00 a.m. So, we're looking forward to that. Uh and we'll have a recommendation to you on August 13th council meeting. Um I did want to cover uh an email was distributed last week to the governing body. Uh I just
kind of wanted to to rehash that uh the governor, Governor Murphy has signed into law S4654. uh which provides for publication of required legal notices on government internet websites uh and through certain
online news publications. So this is a new statute that was enacted. Um and basically what it prescribes is that after March 1st of 2026 whenever a public entity like the burrow uh is required by law to publish or
advertise a public legal notice uh the public entity shall and that's the key word shall advertise the public notice on our official government website as opposed to publicating it in a newspaper. Uh so the the state has moved
away from the newspaper realm and is moving towards digital and government websites. Um the law prescribes that we must have a a uh a button on our homepage that residents can easily access this new
portal that we'll have to promulgate. Um, and also a year after the enactment of the statute, we are required by law to put in a notice every month in the newspaper informing our residents that they now have to go to our website to get these
notices. Um, so again, after March 1st, any and all notices will be on our website. We'll have a new portal for that and will no longer be in the paper. That will save us some money, too, because the papers are becoming expensive. You know, we spend about 20,000 a year. public. So, it's going to save us some
funds. There is increased staff time to do this all. Uh it's going to take some tech work to do. Uh but again, you know, this is a new statute that was enacted and I did send you the full bill text, you know, for everyone to look at. Um and I'm, you know, sure Dave is fully
aware of the new statute. So, that's something that's coming up. Um, also note that the most recent lake service reports were distributed uh to you on July 7th uh and are posted on our website under the environmental
protection web page. Uh, so the vendor did treat Twin Lakes last week. So I just wanted to note that seems to come up often online. Uh with that, uh I also wanted to note that the state of New Jersey budget uh was signed into law by
Governor Murphy on June 30th. Um unfortunately, our efforts uh through Senator Joe Facio uh unfortunately went unnoticed by the governor. Uh our funding request for the DPW garage was not included in the state budget. Uh
there was over 300 projects that the governor put in the budget. Uh but unfortunately, we didn't make the cut this year. Uh this is the second year that we were denied for the funding. So I just want to you know note that um we do have three grant applications pending uh from
our our federal legislators uh Senator Kim uh Senator Booker and Congresswoman Poe. Uh we were included in Senator Kim's submission to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Uh it's a first step in a very lengthy process,
but it's a step in the right direction. uh the first step needed to get through all the processes. Uh so our request is pending and it's for $3 million for the library. I'm sorry, for the DPW garage. Uh so we will keep you updated and continue to work on other grant
opportunities for the DPW garage. I also wanted to cover uh that an email was distributed from the state health benefits plan. Uh the state has announced uh that the premiums for the state health benefits plan will be increasing
by 37%. That's a huge number. That that is an additional $550,000 that we're going to have to put in our budget for next year. That's a very large hit to the burn. So, our recommendation, you know, in talking
with our property and liability risk manager, uh we're looking to retain a health benefit broker to work with us, uh we're looking at either moving private private carrier, Horizon, Etna, um or looking at a health insurance fund, which is a conglomerate of
municipalities that pull together, you know, insurance like we have the GIF for property and liability insurance. They have a HIP for health insurance. Um, you know, we have restrictions with our union agreements. It has to be equal to or better. You know, we can't offer
anything less for the employees. Uh, but we are looking into it. Uh, we submitted for our loss funds and claims experience with the state. Uh, we did have to pay a small fee for that, but ultimately I think we have an obligation to to look into this increase and see what we can
do. Every town is facing this in the state plan. So, it's something that we'll report back to you in the future uh before the end of the year and look for some alternate solutions on that. Uh last thing I had uh sorry for the lengthy report uh the tax collector's
office uh is open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 to 10:30. We have a designated tax collector present at that time and then office staff is available to assist residents uh thereafter. I just wanted to note that. And also tax
bills are expected to be mailed on July 29th. Uh so we'll put out on our website and on social media about that. Um I believe that that's my report for now. All right. So going back to you know I sit on the mayor's panel on a mayor's panel with a bunch of mayors and that
was a huge discussion about this increasing uh funds for health healthcare. It's not just affecting us with that huge number but every town is going to be hit hard and and some towns are going to have some real issues with this. You know for us that's a big number. That's a huge number. So, we do have to start looking at alternate
means, unfortunately, to to make this work. And hopefully, this broker can help us with that and move us forward with that. Of course, like you said, it can't be anything less than we're offering our our contracted unions right now. So, that's important. The other thing I just want to mention on your report was I because I get a lot of
calls about it. We treat the lakes on that are on our side of the property. Okay. So, for example, Twin Lake is treated some of that is owned by Wanukq. We don't treat the Wanak side of that. We only treat our side of that. So you might see an actual line down the the lake where they're not treating it and
where we are treating it. Same thing with Pmpton Lake. There's owned by three different towns. Our section is being treated, but Wayne doesn't treat and Oakland doesn't treat. So again, residents are calling and wondering why we look good here, but there's so much debris or or stuff growing, and that's
the reason. So, and we've I can tell you the flood advisory board and we have reached out numerous times to these other towns to try to get them on board, but they just didn't want to do that. Um, I missed something. No, you're good. No, I'm done. Uh, sorry, I forgot. Uh, so going back to the social media policy update. Um, I
did send an email out kind of analyzing the policy. I think we're going to schedule a workshop for the August 13th council meeting, but really just for an introduction and to make it short is that our existing policy was adopted in 2016. And the policy states that any department, committee, commission, board
of the bureau uh can have a page, can have a Facebook, Instagram, Twitter page uh as long as they get prior approval from the bureau for said page. And then that group is to is to provide the bureau with a list of names and contact information uh of individuals uh who are
authorized to manage the page. Uh I did go back and Dave and I were looking into it to see apparently there was discussions about this uh around COVID. Uh so we did find a meeting July 14th of 2021 where at the time the governing
body kind of discussed bringing it in house designating a person to do that. Uh and that policy ultimately was followed for for at least a few years. Um and you know you had a dedicated person to do that at the time. Uh but
lately it's kind of resulted back to the volunteers to manage the pages. We manage some of them not all. Um but most notably we never enacted an ordinance amendment for that new policy. So the policy was implemented in part but we never enacted any sort of ordinance. So
I think for the next workshop you know we're going to look at both the operations and the potential uh memorializing of an ordinance amendment in the future. Uh but that's kind of the issue at face right now uh for that. Okay. Any questions to the administration?
Um radioactive dire. No, I didn't have for the administrator. I had for the chief. So Oh, okay. You can ask the officer. Okay, you got one. Okay. Oh, u just quickly, so on the digital side of moving now with the public notices. So although I am on board with
that, I think we need to figure out some middle ground here. So uh posting it on the website is great, not having in the newspaper for a base in pomp and lace that may not have access or to look. Um, I would look into the current hosting company for our website and see if they
have push notifications for anything that's been uploaded and added specifically for that. So either it goes to as a text message with a link to the document, okay? So they can at least view it or be notified because they get the newspaper, they don't have to go
chase it. They're going to see it here. You're going to have to know there's a public notice on the website to go look at it. So we need to figure out a way to be at least notify Again, you would have to talk to Civic Plus, which I believe is the company obviously that's hosting, and see if that's a feature option that
will not break the bank, but I think that should be considered. And and that that is an option that we have, but we do use that, you know, semi-frequently. Oh, that's fantastic. Uh, you know, there's different criteria. You could have a push to text notification for agendas. You could have it for a news flash. You could have it
for a public notice. So, that's something that we could definitely do um in the interim. Okay. Excellent. Okay. You I did have an question from the administrator. Uh channel channel 77 uh back on. Was off. It was on. It's on. I was watching it yesterday. It
was on. That it was on, but it's still very foggy. It's not clear. It's It is. Um is there anything we can do about that? Sharp. You can't see a picture. Yes. So, I was talking with Councilman Cruz and Council President Polydori
about this last week. Um, the problem is the burrow a few years ago did away with a vendor uh video plus that basically takes takes the output and makes sure it's broadcast on optimum. Uh, so we did away with that vendor years ago. I I
can't answer why. Um, so the channel fell on, you know, tough times, if you will, uh, and was in disrepair, but we have since re-retained this individual and are looking at contracting and making sure that there's language within there. Uh, but he is actively working on
the station. So, I hope that it's going to be solved soon. Um, but I don't have an answer today, you know, with what the problem is. So, you'll just work it. And it did go down and we we had no real answer why it went down and then it came back up. Oh, you know, this just the way it is right now. But it's just a little foggy right now.
It is. It is foggy. Fuzzy. It is. All right. You got a question for the chief? Yeah. I was just curious about the We're getting a new uh utility vehicle. Um I saw in the parking lot there's a police car sitting there with no license plates and covered in dirt. Is there
something wrong with that car or is broken down or Yeah. So that that uh that is a very old um charger. So, from my understanding, we are in the process of uh that's going to be taken off the line. So, that's why
it's just been sitting there, but there's a process in order to do that. And uh Sergeant Catrell is in the process of that and it'll go to auction at that point. Yeah, some we can get something for it. It blew it if blue Yeah, I think we if once it goes to auction, we'll get
something for it. I think that was the vehicle. Uh that was the vehicle we got from the uh county, wasn't it? It might have been. It was old. It was the old I think SRO vehicle that he used with for a time if I'm not mistaken, but it blew a transition transmission. It's not worth
being fixed. So, that's going to be taken off the line. So, just for the newer council, normally when when we take something offline, we do try to sell it and some places will buy it like you know, we sold our old fire truck. Sometimes they will buy the police cars. You know, it's pennies on the dollar, but it's something and goes in back into the budget to help us
purchase new equipment. So, I'm sure and uh uh police uh police officer Catrell is the one in charge of that. He will set it up on online and it'll go to an auction and then we'll take it from there. Okay. Yeah. And in the past, the reason why it's sitting there though, just to give you background, in the past, we used to work out something with Dupont where we
would park them back there, but it became more of a hassle. So, uh hopefully we worked out uh uh a little agreement with uh the DPW superintendent in the county and we might be able to get uh uh a police department spot in
the new recycling center where if we have like these overflow vehicles and we're in a transition or even just our trailer that's parked over there that we're going to be uh able to uh park some of our stuff down there. I just met with Dan uh a couple days ago and it looks like it's going to be good
to go. We just need to work out some logistics so at least it'll it won't be as as messy out there. Good. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions for misters? Nope. Okay. Uh what are we uh workshop Mike? You want to talk about patrolman title or maybe aging? I don't know who's
talking about that one. Yes. Okay. Thank you. It's broken. Good. You're going to start. Yes. I'm just passing out here so you can Follow along. You should give one to just give Kelly.
We'll give you one just for the record to have you got it now. So, I'm looking to modernize our uh our officer's title. So, I don't know if uh many of you are aware, but we often obviously we use the terminology of
police officer, but in actuality on all our ordinances and all our paperwork and even our badges, uh their their title is still uh patrolman. Um, so what I'm looking to do is, you know, update that title across all department
communications records and borrow ordinances. In order to effectuate that, the council would have to, uh, enact an ordinance to do that. Um, but let me just give you some background. So, why the change and why is it needed? Um, you know, I would say patrolman is a very
outdated uh term. Uh, most departments now use the term police officer. Uh just to give you some context, the NYPD uh were all patrolmen. They changed that title in 1973, approximately 50 years ago or over 50
years ago. Um we currently have two female officers. Um and you know, I don't think the change is about gender as so much as uh that it that it promotes uh consistency throughout all
all members of our officers. Um, and that's the term police officers already widely used and it's a term that I'm sure you you all use on a on a daily when referencing this. Um, what this change involves. So, there's no there's no there's not going to be any change
with uh with rank uh compensation or job duties. Um, what we're asking for is a title change only, which requires, like I said, an ordinance amendment. Uh, fiscal impact. Um so there'll be minimal cost to the
overall police department uh budget. Um existing right now we have 12 officers. Um and some of those costs will be uh will be new badges for them. Uh which we
we have badges already on site that we will be able to refurbish through a company and make them brand new. Uh the also another cost that would be associated uh with the officers is that they would have to update their
uniforms. Um I met with the PDA uh a couple days ago in regard to this and the the change would be phased in over time. So there's not going to be any immediate cost to the officer to have to go change their badge. As you know, our off our badges are all embroidered. So
in their embroidered badge control. So, every year officers get a uniform allowance and they uh cycle in new uniforms periodically. We do do uniform inspections and that'll be uh cycle through uh it's either going to be a year or two years. I haven't worked that
process out for the PBA, but we'll sit down and hash that out if if the council so approves. Um but basically uh if uh the council does approve um the next steps would just be to introduce uh an ordinance amendment and then we'd be able to
update our uh dep uh any department policies and uh adopt uh this change to reflect everything uh within our department. Uh I would say in summary that uh this professional change is long overdue
uh and it'll align us with uh police standards and practices across the country. All right. So I think we're first we'll take any questions if you have any questions about that. But what we're really asking here is to have Michael prepare an ordinance to make that happen. But if you have a question about the actual process, now's the time to
ask. Anybody have a question? Anybody have a concern with it? No. No. So we I'll take a quick straw poll. You okay with ordinance. Okay. So, we're good. So, Mike, you can make that happen. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it.
Thank you. Okay. Uh the one the Rambert Street. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, so at at prior council meetings, we've received several complaints, you know, and really I've received complaints outside of council meetings about Lambert Street, about parking,
about safety and and and people parking near the stop sign and blocking the road. Uh, so I did schedule a ordinance committee meeting. We had uh Captain Rodriguez and Lieutenant Cleaki on the meeting. Uh we did look at you know the
current uh the current status of Lambert Street and the size. Uh so really the takeaway is is that the width of Lambert Street is about 21 ft wide. Um the average width of a car is 5.8 ft uh to 6 ft. Um and if
two vehicles are parked directly across from each other uh that only leaves 9.4 ft of lane travel. Um the average width of a school bus is about 8 to nine feet. So it's already a tight it's already a tight situation. Um and we we have been
receiving complaints about a school bus that has been parked on Lambert Street. I guess this resident utilizes a school bus commercially. It it is registered according to the police department. Um it is compliant with everything right now, but really that only leaves about 6
ft of lane travel. Um the the federal code recommends a minimum width of 10 ft to begin with for any road. So really it's a it's a it's a tight situation. A fire truck couldn't fit through if if the parking aligned in that way. An
ambulance might have trouble the police department. Um, so we kind of looked at, you know, we looked at pros, we looked at cons, and really the recommendation is to is to have one side parking on Lambert Street moving forward. Uh,
specifically on the east side of the street, uh, because the east side has four driveways and the west side has two driveways. Uh, so that was the takeaway from the ordinance committee and we're here tonight recommending uh, one side parking for Lambert Street. It would
only be from Lakeside A to the dead end at Acidbrook. Uh we aren't we are not recommending for the other side of Lambert Street nearest KFax. Uh this would only be for that very small stretch of road. Um so again, that's the recommendation. We're looking to
introduce an ordinance at the August 13th council meeting. And really, if anyone has any questions or concerns, well, Bobby, you got anything you want to add or you covered it? I just want to make sure that I know we talked about communicating obviously out to the residents in the area so they're well aware obviously of the plans. Um um
overall I I I commend the police department for doing the study obviously to come with that you know um the details uh regarding the width of the street and the potential hazards that it can possibly cause obviously in the event of an emergency. So, um, but other than that, I think it's a good job by the police department.
Now, I think just for the council's perspective, the gentleman who's parking his bus moves it every night. So, it's not parking it overnight. So, you are allowed to park a car on the street, uh, you know, anytime you want. So, that, you know, we did look at at some concerns with that cuz it is a it's not
a big bus. It's one of the smaller buses. It's a smaller one, but but he uses as a work uh travel van for his uh and there's nothing restricting him from parking the bus on the street. So, that's the one as long as he moves. Correct. So, you will be able to park on the west side or the east side. Which side are
you going to park on? The west side. You'll park on the west side. It has less driveway. Yes. Correct. Yes. And to Councilman Cruz's point, uh we will be handd delivering letters to every affected resident informing them of the public hearing for the ordinance just to promote transparency and that
they're aware of what's going on. So, any questions about Nope. Okay. We can move forward with that. Can I ask a question similar related to that? Um, just more on the topic of one ways. Did we ever get anywhere with looking at alternating oneways off a
wanq onto that wannqa section? I know we talked about it a few meetings back. Um, I don't think we made any progress with that, but I can pick that back up. Yeah. Maybe just to refresh our memory, that uh street,
the street in between um I believe it's Tony's and that section where the tax is and the Mexican restaurant in the end was the street that initiated the questioning, the resident, I think it's Wanqa that runs BFWA. BFWA.
Okay. Yeah. Um we had briefly discussed the possibility of along that stretch of Wanuk. I think there's four turns into that parking lot alternating one way because they're very narrow. So, if you have two cars, especially with the increase in traffic, we're
anticipating with the completion of the Meridia project, the residents are concerned that live down there that if you have cars coming in and out, it could create an issue because it's a very narrow. There's no way to get two cars down there. So, I've seen it myself. If someone's making a turn to go down the hill and someone's coming up,
someone has to uh back up and let the other person go. Thank you for the explanation. Um I think I'll call a meeting with the police department and specifically with the county because it's ultimately a county road I think will be impacting county traffic. Um and we'll look at that. They provide a workshop in the future
and some of those driveways that the other driveways are privately owned too. So um they're not town owned, right? That's something we'll also have to look into. So thank you. Okay. Okay. Can I have a motion to open the meeting of public comments? Councilman Bennon, Councilman Cruz. All in favor? Against? Anyone from the public like to
address? Just step up. You're good. Helen Zlocky 6 Butler Street. Will you be coming back into public session after your executive session? I'll answer at the end. Yes, I'll answer at the end when you're when we're done talking. Oh, well. Okay then. Thank you. Anyone
else from the public elect to address? Seeing no one can have a motion to close the public session. Motion council president Paulori Councilman Bennon. All in favor? I against. Yes, we will be coming out of close session just to discuss. I'm just using as an example. If it was personnel, we'll be saying we discuss personnel matters. That's where we'll be
coming out to say. So yes, you will be we always come out of a close session to discuss what we did. Uh but all we say is if we talk about personnel, we'll say we discussed a personnel matter. That's what we'll be discussing. Okay. So, my question from the first
part of the meeting was just let you be taking action. That's my question. No formal action. No. Okay. Okay. Approach report. Any uh just quickly I just want to bring up just one item. If we could ask Dan, supervisor of DPW, to take a look at the
uh vegetation over at Lakeside Park. Uh from my understanding, you know, there was a gentleman who was having a photo taken and you couldn't even see the the point was to obviously have the lake in the background. you could not see it uh from my understanding. I did not check so I apologize but if uh someone from DPW
just so just so I know you're talking about the fenced area or the Rotary Park area. Rotary Park area and I I believe it's the Rotary Park. So I did receive a complaint about that. Okay. Um from actually Councilwoman Kent. Uh so I did speak to Mickey of the DPW. Uh it's my impression that we're receiving
we're accepting delivery rather of a new attachment for our new tractor that we bought that Eagle Leaves can better facilitate the trimming of the vegetation. Um we can only go so far into the lake because it really gets into the lake and it's kind of hard uh
to do. But that is something I think that we're going to be doing in the next few minutes. We have to check with the EPA because that was put in by statute the EPA with Dupant. Those are all Dupont planted trees. I thought there were some areas that couldn't be trimmed, aren't there? Yeah, there are I think there are some areas there that can't be trimmed
because I had question back when they were doing it. I thought they were putting too many trees in and it was they were going to grow in the block the view and they said, "Look, this is what the EPA said we had to do. This is what we got to do." So, that's something we have to look into. Okay. Any uh Yeah, I just had something. Um, I had a
resident contact me on the senior trip about a a street sign missing on Doors Highway and Central Avenue. If you could have uh DPW look into that. Uh, the sign says Doors Highway, but there's no sign
saying Central Avenue. And I'm glad you reminded me because I am getting questions from residents. The south side of town will be getting new signs. Uh, they will probably be in what, spring of next year, you think? No, no. We we ordered our signs already. So, I'm anticipating them to be installed throughout the rest of the
summer into the fall. All right. So, the southside will be getting their their signs. I know. And I just want to uh thank you uh Mr. Administrator um for getting that tree removed at 58 James Terrace. I had been after that for a while and uh I'm glad that it was taken care of. It was on our
new property that we bought from Mr. Heiml and it was leaning over onto the woman's deck right across the river. So, uh, I want She was very happy that you did that. Thank you. She called me. Thank you for doing that. It's very happy for all of us. I told her.
Okay. Uh, motion to, uh, go into close session. Motion. Council President Maldori, Councilman, uh, Venon. All in favor? Thank you, everyone. Okay. Personnel. I was I say negotiation personnel
communication litigation. Okay. In close session we discussed litigation and personnel matters. Motion to adjurnn. Motion. Councilman Bennon. Council president Paldori. All in favor? I I Okay. Now
I can address your question.