agenda. We're starting, guys. Here we go. I don't carry a double with me. [Music] The following is the agenda for the regular burough council meeting at Bur Thompson Lake. Mayor, Council, Municipal Corporation, and the county say meeting
will begin at 7:30 p.m. on June 11th, 2025. and this will build in 2517 near Thompson Lakes consistent with the open public meetings acting will be open for public comments and shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the bur municipal code of stand
[Music] 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 merit council as they deliberate on the best of Pompton Mike.
Very much what? He's kind of late. Uh okay. 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 requested and paid for saying and published in the suburbia terms. Roll please. Mayor Sarah here. Council president here. Councilman Cruz here. Councilman Hint here. Councilwoman Kent
here. Councilman Clint here. And Councilman here will be. Yes. With us this evening is our burough attorney David Bloomberg and our bur administrator Michael. Okay. Thank you. It's always my pleasure to do uh offer
some good information about our search team. So, I'm going to invite Devil Ross, our lead, our leader of the cert, and Aleandist, our AM director, to come up and why don't you explain a little bit to the public too, what you what you guys do, what that is. Watch just watch the line there. Good evening, everyone.
Come in. You're welcome. [Music] Just close. How's this? Yes. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Uh first of all uh I'd like to thank you
for this opportunity to recognize our sixert graduates. Uh we have a team that started in 2006. So we'll be celebrating our 20th anniversary already, believe it or not, with our search team. Very active team, one of the most active in the state county according to our county uh
counterparts and we see that whenever there's an emergency, we do have a good turnout. Uh we were the recipient of a truck for the team now to tow the trailer which is parked out front and we are going to take a group picture when this is finished. However, tonight we're here to recognize six individuals and I
will call them by name alphabetically if they would line up left to right up here and then the mayor will present you with your certificate. Tim Brooks, John, Matt Devonte, Monina Fero. and one of our gentlemen who's not here
this evening, Diego Roondo and Jeffrey Wycle. [Music] Congratulations. [Music] [Music] If you would just take your certificate out and hold it in front of you, we'll
get a group picture here of everybody. [Music] [Music] Just watch your [Music]
So just before everybody sits, I'm sure everybody understands, but for the people watching at home, our search team is one of the first groups we call in when the OEM director and we think we need them help. So they're one of the first sites on hand to help us. They go through training and they got how many
how many hours? 22 hours. 22 hours of training before they do it and they all volunteer again. So I have to thank all the SER members that are here. You put your time, you put your energy into this to support our town. It's a big deal and we have a huge number. What's the number? We're at 51 51 SER members coming to
help us. That's very impressive. We've trained many many more than that. Those are the people. It's a great organization and I know other towns are letting us know. We can't even get three of you. We got 51 active members. So, thank you guys for joining. Thank you. You're welcome. I'd
just like to thank you mayor council for supporting the search team. It's very viable team and certainly important. I'd like to thank Fred Matelli who's our city county coordinator. uh Fred provided some challenge points for our graduates
tonight and certain pins and we thank him for that being there for us and helping us out whenever we need it. I want to thank uh two couple fire department members uh Captain Nick Roberts and Zach Vanderson who helped us out with the training on fire and
rescue. And then we had my son Matt and also Chris Lefenic, one of our newest members in the fire department that went up to the fire academy on the final evaluation day and helped everybody go into the burn building, smoke building and all that good stuff. Gas meters,
fires, putting out those shoes. Everything went well. Also, our terrorism course was taught by Mr. Diego Rundo and um I think everybody enjoyed it. So, thank you very much. Congratulations to you and we'll see you
Thank you. So, next I have the honor of uh presenting a gold star project. Gold star uh gold award project to Harie Carol. Um the uh you can stay a minute
before I you come up. I'll bring you up in one sec. the uh she built us some nice bat boxes down at the field for bats to uh kind of migrate into and use and I was talking to some of the people. I think it would be interesting and we're going to look for some funding for this to put a GoPro
camera on one of the towers of the bats to kind of watch the bats come in and out. We could watch live from PMPA Lakes. So, we're going to work on some funding for that to see if we can do that. So, with that, why don't you come up Pat? I have a nice proclamation for you. You can bring up whoever you want or you can
just be yourself, whatever you'd like. Congratulations. It's a high honor. It's just like an Eagle Scout. Same award except for brother can come up too if he wants them all up there. That's what happen,
you know. Look at you were just a recent Eagle Scout, right? Yeah. This family has an Eagle Scout and a Gold Star in the same week or two. Very impressive. Impressive for you guys, actually. Thank you. Okay. Whereas a Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest honor a Girl Scout
can achieve. Whereas only a small percentage of Girl Scouts exhibit the uh leadership and desire to climb the mountains to reach this pinnacle. A large percentage of of these Girl Scouts grow up to be leaders in her politics, business, and religious life. She has distinguished herself by achieving this
high honor. Alien by achieving this high honor has brought distinction to her parents, her church, her school, and her community, and can stand now as a role model for the other young women still laboring along this trail. Now therefore, I Michael Sarah as mayor
of Burough Pont here to proclaim Wednesday June 11th as 2025 Haley Harold Day in the buries. I call on all our citizens to honor this young woman and her great achievements. Great job. Again, her her uh Volksw project was a
pat box, which is an interesting thing. And we're trying to see how the raining goes with the boxes up up there. So, come on. To me, I used to be a park ranger 100 years ago, so I appreciate those kinds of things. And uh I really hope it takes off and it works well.
Thanks. Thank you. Yeah. You guys can stay for the whole meeting or now would be your chance to get out. So that's up to you. Okay. Council assignments. Does any council require any of the following council assignment nominations to be pulled for
separate action? [Music] If I see none, can I just do them as a group or do I have to read more? No, you can do them as a group. Yeah. Because you just asked as a group. Okay. So, as listed below, this would be Patrick's new assignments, which are basically Lisa's assignments that we had talked
about previous to this, but the attorneys felt it best to do it this way to put it out there. So, uh Patrick and I met and he was good with all these assignments, I think. Right. Correct. Do I have to vote on that or doesn't even need a vote? Uh, it needs a uh it needs
uh a second vote. Okay. Can I have a motion? Second. Council President Alder. Council Cruz. All in favor? I against. Welcome to work, Patrick. You can jump in. Hands full now. You'll be busy every night. They lie to you whatever they told you.
Okay. There's a second there's a second. Does any council require Oh, okay. I thought it was we we grouped them or Yeah. No. Yeah. See, we we've got a vote there. So, council appointments. Does any council person require any of the following council appointments to be
pulled for separate action? Seeing none. Can I have a motion? Motion. Councilman Hinton. Second. Council President Palori. All in favor? I against. Okay. Motion to open the meeting for public comments. So moved. Second. Councelor
President. Wait, there's another one. Three sections. No, there's two. You have Oh, I see. Yes. You have it for license and ordinance member council on appointments and now for council appointments. Yeah. Yep. What was the
first one then? The first one was for finance, public safety. Okay. So, now we're up to council appointments. Yeah. Council appointments. Does any council person require any of the following council appointments to be pulled for separate action?
Okay. Seeing none, can I have a motion? Motion. Second. Council president Palori. Councilman Cruz. All in favor? Against? Is there any more? Did I miss um yes motion open the meeting for we did that already I think it was council
president Paul and council cruise all in favor against anyone from public like to address please step up uh evening my name is George 1104 Kfax Avenue and here's another discussion of an attitude just two weeks after our
last one. Mayor, we have a very strong We have a very wet spring, heavy rains. Each rain event is doing damage to my property. It's It's getting to the point of being dangerous. What is the burrow waiting
for? Catastrophic collapse. You really want some injuries? You want You want a lawsuit coming in? Because I've got it all documented. I've been in front of here for 18 months. said, "You're talking to this administration. You've been in the administration for almost 10
years. Nothing can get done. You had an answer last week. That was no answer. I haven't heard from Michael at all." I'm referring to Mr. Carelli. Okay. I mean, you know, waiting for the town engineer to tell him his schedule. I
can't believe it. The Burrow has known about this problem for 16 years. and the damage that it's doing. I I I can't believe it. I just it's beyond me. You know that we can be going through
this time and time again and no movement, no schedule, no plan. I really wonder is there any confidence on this whole project or potential project? Do you have a project? You have a plan. Can someone find their butt with both
hands? It really is a big question for me. Thank you for your time. It's a real shame that I have to come up here every single council meeting. Thank you. And I know you'll answer my question, right? Yes, I will. You haven't given me an answer in 16. I I'll answer your questions. Yeah. Thank you. Okay.
[Music] [Music] Helena Zablaki, 6 Butler Street. A few questions. First, can residents purchase a military banner, and if so, who do I
contact? Second, the public is now aware of two serious lawsuits against police chief Derek Clark and the burrow. Though you cannot comment on personnel issues, the
claims are in the public domain and the details are ugly. These serious allegations against Clark and Anthony Rodriguez for longtime participation and unconscionable and
illegal behavior mandates that the council use caution when determining the next police chief. In fact, no decision should be made until these legal issues are resolved. Third, how much is this litigation
costing the burrow? And last, is there a nepotism policy regarding the hiring of burrow employees? Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else like to address? Please step up.
[Music] Lauren Venon for Sunset Road. Uh, first, thank you for honoring Haley this evening. Um, don't know that we've had a Girl Scout Gold Award acknowledged with the proclamation. Certainly not in
the 11 years, 11 years that I've been involved. So, that's great. Thank you. Um, switching hats. Flood Advisory Board. Councilman Quinn, you are our new leaison. Hi, I'm your
board chair. Um, we have work to do and I'm bringing flagging to the council right now uh what is being said about changes to FEMA and possible implications and echoes through to the
NFIP program could be extremely impacting to our community, to our residents. There might not be much that can be done to mitigate, but we need to be aware. We need to be very aware. We need to be on
top of this. And because a board cannot contact government officials outside of the municipality directly, I we will be relying on our liaison and on mayor and counsel to be making official contacts
and inquiries and monitoring. Association of State Flood Plane Managers has been organizing um some political pressure on Congress to speak up to be very very cautious in
what is approved when it comes to changes in FEMA and how that impacts individuals, property owners, and the National Flood Insurance Program. This is hugely impactful to about a third of our community.
incredibly financially impactful to residents and potentially to the bureau also because we all know what it costs on the municipal level every time we flood. So, I just want to make sure that this is on everyone's radar, everyone is aware of it, and that we will be monitoring it and
we've we've organized, we've asked questions, we've gotten answers before. You know, we know how to do this, so let's just work together on it, please. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else from the public like to address? Seeing no one, can I have a motion to
close the public session? Motion. Second. Was that Councilman Hint? Councilman Hinton. Council Councilwoman. All in favor? I against. Okay. Mr. Papov, I would like nothing better to not see you at these meetings ever again. Um, for this purpose, we
have to make it work. We We've committed to making that work. It's a process and it's not a time frame that you're probably going to be happy with. I'm going to let Michael address the time frame and address any information he has. You really have to work with the bureau administrator and if he hasn't contacted you, that's when you need to
reach out to me and let me know and I will make sure that he's on top of contacting you about what has to be done. But I'll let Michael address anything we know about it so far. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, so the burough engineer and I reached out to Mr. Papaz last week. Uh, I reached out to him again today. The engineer was out. Uh we're
trying to meet with him on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week to present him with our plan for the project. And you spoke to Mr. Papo? Email. Oh, email. He did not email any anything. He sends it in a format that I can't open. Okay. A little bit. All right. So, let me let me
address that. Okay. Mike, could we uh try to reach out to him on the phone then? Yes. And so he can see that he's having an issue opening these emails. He he needs to know that information. So, let's make sure he gets that information to him. Yeah. So, I would appreciate if we could do by phone. Yes. Thank you.
Okay. So, the answer when am I going to hear from? The engineer and I will call him tomorrow. There you go. You'll get a call tomorrow. Okay. I'll get back to you directly. Thank you. Okay. Uh uh Huna, thank you for contacting us. The
military banners. Uh we're are we at the stage of Michael adding outside people yet today? Thank you, Mayor. Uh, council president Paladori and I will be meeting with the BFW uh, in the next two to three weeks to put together a plan for next year. Okay, so that answers your number one question. Uh, the police
matter involving the captains and uh, we cannot talk about that. That's litigation. Uh, it is in the court system. It has to move through the court system. We have nothing to do with that. That is paid uh, uh, through a separate insurance uh, policy that we have. There's no cost actually for the
attorneys. Um, and Mike maybe you want to address how that works a little bit. Uh, we cannot. Okay. You're not even given the how it was paid. No. Okay. Um, and then the the last one was the uh
the cost of the of the of the uh nepotism. Oh, of the nepotism clause. We do have a nepotism. We do have a codified policy. We do have a a nepatism clause in in our bylaws. Um, thank you for contacting us about, you know, I think we should do this for
every uh gold star. So, we have no issue doing it. It's just someone has to present it to us and we will do it. Um, of course, we understand how hard our flood board works here. It's one of the best flood boards around. You guys do reach out and follow the the uh litigation through Congress about what
they're putting or presenting. And, you know, I would say most flood boards are not doing that. So, you are on top of that 100%. I'm sure Patrick will be involved and and answer any concerns or questions or bring you can always bring it back to us Patrick if you have any questions or concerns about that. Um
they have an active group over there and they have a lot going on so you'll you'll learn a lot there. So thank you. Okay. Motion. Did I close the public session? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Minutes. Motion to approve the following
minutes. Regular meeting minutes May 28th, 2025. Close session meeting minutes May 28th, 2025. Special open council meeting minutes June 4th, 2025. And I have a motion. Motion. Second. Councilman Hinton.
Councilman Crooms. All in favor? I uh authorized bills and claims as listed below. Can I have a motion? Motion. Council president. Second. Councilman Hinton. All in favor? I against uh does anybody need any of the consent
agenda questions? Yeah, I had a question on 25221 221. Okay, any others? Okay, [Music] mayor. No, I'm sorry. Go ahead. and burough
council of the burough of conflict have approved the consent agenda consisting of various proposed resolutions whereas mayor council of the bure of compuls does desire to approve resolutions for ind individual action from that agenda now therefore be it resolved that the
following resolution on the consent agenda are hereby approved resolutions 25-2132-22 and we're going to move 221 thank you we have a motion to approve the resolutions as listed Motion. Councilman Hitney. Second. Council President Palori. All in favor? I. Against. Roll call, please. I
have roller. No, I And there's there's one abstension on resolution 22. 25222. Wait. Was there an abstension? 25222. Okay. So there uh Councilman Cruz abstained on just that
one. Just that one. Just on that one. Correct. I have. Okay. You good? Yes. Okay. Now I'm going to read 221 orthodont refund of outside le block 3201. Mike, you want to add anything to this?
Uh if there's a question, my question just generally is it says a refund for outside lean on block 3201 lot 5. I don't know if all the council people
have access to the tax maps, but how would they they know where 3201 Lock 5 is? I do have access to the tax maps. Question they could ask. It's 111 Legion Street, but I was just curious, why don't you just put the address on there
also? And uh we don't normally do that. I think it is on the resolution. Well, it's on the written resolution. Yes. Right. Oh, you're saying on the uh on the agenda? On the agenda. No, we don't have to. It's too much information from the resolution to put on the agenda. We just list the numbers for the resolution
on the agenda. That's too much information. Well, then you can say that about any other uh resolution. We need we should put this on and we should put that on. That's why it's in your packet to look up the resolutions if you want to look that up. And what was the reason why that was a refund on that? Uh this
is a lean redemption. This is uh an outstanding lean that was held against the property that can now be released. You know, a ver a culmination of things from property maintenance to other issues. You know, it depends. For this specific property, we could let you know. Uh but again, this is the tax
collector's uh duties to to handle lean redemptions. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh resolution 25-221. Can I have a motion? Motion. Council President, Councilman Hinton. All in favor? I against. Oh, wow. Lucky that.
No ordinances. Um I have an appointment to the uh board of adjustment to appoint Gary Close with the advice and consent of the municipal council as an alternate number three member to the zoning board of adjustments for an unexpired term December 31st, 2026. I have a motion.
Motion. Councilman Cruz. Second. Councilwoman Kent, I'm sorry. No, zoning is not. Well, maybe it is. I I thought it wasn't, but planning is. Okay. Okay. Yes. Go ahead.
Is that right? Okay. All right. So, it's Councilman uh Cruz and Councilwoman Kent. All in favor? Against. Okay. Under my report, he's Gary. Gary Klaus. Oh, hey. Hey,
Gary. How are you? Nice to see you. Thanks for your time. Um, under my report, I had a couple meetings with affordable housing. We were very close. We're getting there. There was some tweaks we had to do to it, but uh, we have some good professionals working on that. So, uh, that that's good to see that we'll get that finished and done
and move on from there. We had a personnel meeting. I had a meeting with the I had two different meetings with the county over some, uh, issues we're having. I attended two grand openings. one at the new Taekwondo facility downtown in uh Waniku, which is a great little site. They really fixed it up
nicely. If you haven't been in there, it looks great. Um and the side bear has new ownership. Um they're hoping to sell uh food there and and uh do some things there. So, we'll keep in mind what's going on there. I had the privilege of attending uh an Eagle Scout ceremony for Tyler, uh the gentleman that was just
here. That's a pretty impressive family having a daughter and a son doing both in in the same week. tires project was a pretty important project in that they built a pit to build to uh burn flags that are worn and torn for of so you know when you when we dropped those
flags off a resident dropped those flags off in a mailbox those have to be burned prof in a in a sacred manner with uh with the DFW. So they set up a uh he burn he built a burn pit for them and it was a nice project and all the Boy Scouts helped. It was a great job. If
you haven't noticed, the civic center is being built in the back. The second story was added on on top. Um uh so we're getting closer to getting that building back open. You know, not having that building for the last two years has hurt us a little bit because we've had a lot of meetings in there and some of the newer residents that don't even
understand that we have a civic center there. So when that civic center is all finished, it will be a bigger two meeting rooms, a small little kitchen. Uh the seniors can meet there if they want. I know Mr. Hinton had spoken to them and they'd like to stay where they are. Stay in Riverdale. Um, and we'll have some storage which we desperately
need for our offices upstairs. So that hopefully we're hoping in the next month or two to get that finished. And that is my report. Council President Valeri. Thank you. First, I want to congratulate all of the graduate members of the SER program and thank them for their time and service to the community. I would
also like to congratulate Haley for her hard work on her Gold Award. Um, I also attended the grand opening at the side door. They've already done a lot of work improving the facility and have plans to expand the menu and I look forward to see what they have in store for us in
the future. I wish them the best of luck. Um, I did attend with Councilman Quinn the scholarship awards ceremony where we had the ability to hand out one of the scholarships to one of our graduating seniors. Would like to congratulate all of the seniors that received a scholarship that evening and
wish them all the best of luck in their next chapters. I also attended the special meeting for the Oakland shared service uh discussion. So I look forward to the continued discussions in close session so that we can come to an arrangement that is in the best interest
of Compton Lakes. Uh and also last I will reach out to Councilwoman Ken and um Michael you as well. I did hear back from both principles. They will work with the second grade art teachers to have the posters done up for the naming
of the turtle for the Hersfield park. Has that piece been installed yet? Not yet. I reached out to the vendor. It's on its way. Okay. So, they um they're heading into their last two weeks of school. So, he has informed me that both schools will give us their posters by
the 16th. And then from there, if you think it's easier, Maria, to have open space vote like they did last time, I can deliver the posters. If it's easier at this point to have the art teachers vote in the schools, I leave it to you. Just let me know. I can pick them up and then if it's not in any way, perhaps
once it's installed, we can schedule something over the summer and bring the winning students back like we did last time. And uh I hope you're happy that we've continued this project cuz this was at the suggestion of Liz. So we have another naming and uh the students are
the students are excited about it. So thank you for that. Um and that is my report. Thank you Councilman Cruz. Thank you mayor. So I just uh did not attend the board of education meeting last night. It was the spring athletic award ceremony last night. So um but nothing pressing was provided. So I would
imagine um it was a meeting went with no problems. I do have a report though from the first meeting of the month. And this is more just to highlight one of the programs which is a fascinating program and kudos to the uh um just excuse me one sec just let it note that councilman
ven as well. Yep. Okay. Thanks. Go ahead. On just the curriculum and just in particular, there's one program that we have here, which is a dual enrollment college program. Now, just so you guys understand, you know, in high school today, it's very competitive right now as far as the programs that are being
offered, especially for PCTI, which does have a lot of funding, can build a new building anytime they feel like it to just offer a new course offering. So, Pton Lakes, I'm happy to say, is very competitive at this date. So, I'm just going to go over a few things regarding the dual enrollment college credit program expansion. So partnerships are
as follows with Ramapul College of New Jersey, Ruckers University, William Patterson University, Cen Hall University, Felician University, P County Community College, and Berkeley College. This year, participation in the dual enrollment courses increased by 33%.
An additional 28% of college credits were earned by our students. Some of the courses that were existing already, and I'm going to bring up the new ones, um my world language, culinary arts, math, science, social studies, fine arts, and practical courses, uh Spanish four honors, fresh for French
for honors, pre-calculus, calculus, statistics, psychology, sociology, anatomy, physiology, environmental science, physics, mythology. Love that class. Okay. creative writing, advanced film studies, economics, contemporary American experience, introduction to
education, introduction to foods, and foods too. Now, um, the new ones that we're going to be introducing coming into, um, and Mr. Foselto, please correct me if I'm wrong on anything. New course offers include biotechnology research honors, principles of
engineering and robotics, computer science essentials, JavaScript and Python, dynamics of healthcare, AP pre-calculus statistics, academic, environmental science, academic senior option opportunities have expanded in a variety of disciplines including valley
hospital career frontiers program. So, in short, what I'm trying to say is that a lot of our kids are already graduating with a substantial amount of college credits going in and these partnerships that we have now are going to continue to grow. And I'm very proud of our teachers, um, director of curriculum, everyone, the administrative staff, and
just the amazing work that they're doing where we can keep a lot of the kids here versus sending them out to PCTI and some of the other schools that are out there. So, um, congratulations to them. I think this is wonderful. And that'll do it for my report. And and I think you hit the nail on the head. We have a great school system here, but more importantly, if we
can keep our kids from going to the PCTI and keep them here and move on from there, and they can get their college credits and do just what they're doing here, that's a plus plus for everybody. It's a plus for the kids. It's a plus for the community. So, I'm glad that they are doing that. Fantastic work. Uh, Councilman Hton. Yes. Thank you, Mayor.
Um I also attended a special meeting that we all attended on um uh June 4th um for Oakland uh shared service and uh hoping that we could straighten that out the details on that. Um I noticed on uh
Friday um the 6th that channel 77 was down and um I called they're working on it from what I understand. I talked to Mrs. Kent. Uh, just before I came tonight, I turned it on and it is on.
Oh, good. But it's on for another town. It's not on for our town. Oh my god. So, I think there's still something that needs to be done. Um, Brian back and forth. He said it might be a bigger problem. So, they thought it was a battery that was um,
right? It was the battery they thought and they replaced the battery. Correct, Michael? Yes. So, so for the mayor council, we had a service agreement for maintenance and repairs for the for the channel for years and that was uh done away with several years ago. So, we brought in a
vendor to come back. He diagnosed the problem. Originally, we thought it was a battery problem. We installed a new battery. Um, and since Councilwoman Kent, Councilman Hinton have come to us that the channel's not working again. Um, so we believe it's a more uh broader
issue maybe between cable vision. Uh, so we're looking into it, but you know, we're going to put out an announcement to the public on Facebook and the website just to make everyone aware. Can can you tell me what is this battery for? Just curious, what system is this
for? It's our backup uh battery for the system. Are we talking about the UPS system battery? Yes. And maybe we'll talk to about this. We need to put better minds
to this. Yeah. Yeah. That that uh I I have no problem with you want to sit in the mic and talk about it and see what we can do. Yeah. Something doesn't seem right today. We'll talk about it. Okay. I attended the uh MUA meeting on Monday and uh at the end of the MUA meeting uh the attorney for the MUA is Jeff
Cassover as most people know. He said he's been the attorney for the MUA since 1973. Wow. Long time. Um, the question he had for me is, "Mr. Hinton, what happened to channel 77? I wanted to watch and find
out about the Oakland Humpton Lakes garbage situation and he wanted to hear my 27 questions, but he said I turned it on and I couldn't." Well, now you have an answer for me. Okay, now we have an answer, but I'm saying that there's other people out there that No, I agree. We watch you watch it.
No question. Talking to our clerk, she said plenty of times that we could go on the website, but a lot of the seniors, Mr. Cassover is a senior, rather watch it on their television. So, if we could straighten this problem, we are working on it. So, we are working on it. Thank
you. Um, also attended um ribbon cutting ceremony for trails committee, legal scout with you, Mr. Mayor, and Mr. Venon. Um, Alex Diaz, that's who was it. So, it was a nice little ceremony and then also attended a ribbon cutting
ceremony at the side door. Only been going to the side door for 50 years, but uh it was nice to see another owner and uh in that establishment continue. Um I attended the uh Shade Tree Commission
meeting as a citizen once again. Um, but there are things that I was working on last year that I brought up with uh, Councilwoman Kent, the liaison and the committee and um, they're doing a hell of a job, I got to say. And uh, the issues that I brought up, I think that
they'll be able to uh, straighten out. Good. And that is my report. Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman Kit. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I want to congratulate the C graduates. That's a really wonderful program. Um, I was a CERT graduate way back in 2002
with the state police. So, I also rejoined last year and uh it's it's a it's they do this thing with the ham uh um I guess their radios and it's it's something amazing. If everything goes down, the ham radios will actually keep us in contact with the real world. So,
it's really a a very good process and um Al and Al evangelista and uh Debbie Rossa do a great job uh running that whole program. Um I signed the bills today. Thank you. And and I also attended the ribbon cutting for the
Taiwondo business on Wik Avenue. It is a beautiful it it's where the old rug vincer rugs uh used to be and they really did a beautiful job. You would never guess that that I had no idea where I was. I was lost. Um, so I I but
I was uh out of town. I wish the Side Door folks good luck in their new project and uh hope they're successful with their new restaurant and bar. Um I tried the Hersfield Park uh playgrounds out the other day when my two grandchildren came and they they
absolutely had a ball. I went down the slide myself. Uh we have pictures of that. I'm not going to show anybody though, but it's really it's a beautiful uh piece of equipment and there was two sections. There was for little younger children and then for the uh uh I think
I think it's from 5 to 12. Um the kids loved it and there were all of a sudden there were like about I guess 20 kids down there and it was a little cold that morning but it it was really good. Um the inclusive pieces were excellent. Thank you, council uh Caldery. That that
was I know that was your thing and it they they turn they spin. So the merrygoround was the the hit for my kids and the sliding boards are very fast. Um but I'm I'm a little I'm I'm I'm thinking that we need a jungle gym that
that the kids can cross the bars. And I've had about three or four people tell me they think that would be a nice addition at some point. So, I'm going to talk to uh Dan Aor and to the open space, see if that's something we can do. It it shouldn't be so expensive because we already did all the work. We
already got all the prep done. We already took the old stuff out. But it's really beautiful and uh I'm very proud to be a part of that and I'm sure the open space people are as well. Uh I also attended the special public meeting for the proposed shared services and agreement with Oakland. Um it the
handout. I want to thank uh Michael Carelli and uh Superintendent Dana Work. did a beautiful job on that handout and understanding what is all involved and I've always said the devil's in the details. So the the tighter we can get
that project uh to making sure that we take on a project that will make enough money and in addition to cover the cost but actually to generate the revenues the better off we're going to be. Um and I did talk to Michael uh about some of my concerns so and he answered all my
questions. I'm not going to take everybody's time to talk about that, but thank you, Michael, for for taking that time out with me. Um, I attended the Shade Tree monthly meeting. Um, Councilman Hint, you are certainly welcome to say whatever you need to say
at the at the meeting. I I have no I welcome your your input. And they uh they're going to be putting a memorial tree, not a memorial tree, he's alive, but uh they're going to dedicate a tree to you um for all your years of service. Does it have thorns? Does it have thorns
and stuff? No, it's very nice. It's a very nice tree. It has crab apples. Has crab apples. Lots of stickers. But um and and so when when that when we decide to do that, uh we will let you know. But uh thank you. Yes. Well deserved. That it's well deserved. Yes.
And that'll that's coming up. Just so you know. Um we had a tree just so you know there was a question last council meeting about one particular uh tree regarding whether it was on public public right away or was it private. My understanding the
tree was measured and uh again Councilman Hinton in his years did measure it. It it was on private uh property and our John Winson our arborist did not measure it and he was asked. So he we've got to make sure that
when he measures it he said and he did say it was it was his mistake. So we have to ask Michael did did he go out yet or he hasn't gone out? He went out again and uh he you know it was his mistake. It's it's a it's a private private tree which is going to change
how we handled the response to the home. Okay. So that's just an important thing. So uh excuse me who was correcting this? Uh, the guy at the end. Thank you down there. Well, you know what? The nonprofessional thing,
Randy. Randy, everybody makes mistakes, but I I wanted to just bring that up because you did bring that up, mayor, and I I just wanted to clarify that. Okay. So, thank you, Randy. Um, years a serve. Hey, work. It means a lot. Um they also the shade tree commission also
requests that because of applications like this that they somehow or other get a copy of when some of the private tree applications come forth not necessarily for the backyards but certainly for the front yards and whether that would be something that we could work with the
shade tree on. Yeah, that it doesn't look like we're going to be doing that. I I explained that to them, but they they they felt that another request was warranted and I I um brought that up to you. So anyway, uh if there's any resolution to that, that would be nice.
Okay. Okay. That could that would have resolved this one particular one. Okay. Um we have a new commissioner, Commissioner Kalin. she located her and I uh went around to with the um DPW landscape supervisor Nikki Gavin and we
went and tried to find the proper place for the 10 trees that were donated to the uh to the burrow. Uh five are going to go into Katie Cole Park and the other five are going to go into Hurstfield Park by the by the swing sets but not interfering with the swing sets. So, we
were very careful to place those trees and they're they're beautiful trees and they'll be done probably within the next two weeks. Um, as you can see, the police filled their display case with police memorabilia on your way out. Please take a look. It's really very interesting and I'm very happy to have
that project complete. Um, we'll have an open space meeting tomorrow. And we're just one of the questions that I going to ask you, Michael, is do we have any update on the Lakeside Avenue grant for the guardrails and the fence the it the fence is falling down. It's really bad
shape. And if there's any way we can push that along, would be very appreciated. The DPW will be maintaining crosswalks. They were going to paint the crosswalks uh soon. So, if there's an area throughout town where your crosswalk is
faded and you feel it needs uh refreshing, please contact me or Dan Auroric and we'll put it on the uh maintenance list. That includes potholes or any other kind of holes in the road. So, you have to let us know as soon as possible. And I I I'm also working with
channel 77. It's it seems to be, you know, sometimes it's great and other times it doesn't work. But I know you can watch the pro the um the our our meetings on YouTube. So if you if you really have to watch it, you're just going to have to go to YouTube until we
resolve this. But it will be resolved. Okay. And that is my report. Thank you, Councilman Clinton. Yes. Uh I attended the special meeting for shared services last week. Uh I attended the grand opening of the side door. I'm glad that
they are now offering food. Uh, in addition, I just want to thank Liz and Michael for helping on board and the offers of help from the other committee members and the mayor. And as I get more
involved with my committees and boned up, I'll sure have more for you. Yeah. You'll have better reports as you move forward. Yes. Thank you. Is that it? That's my report. Uh, Councilman Bennett. Thank you, Mayor. I want to congratulate Haley Carol on her golden award recognition this receiving. Sorry
I missed it. Um the Girl Scout Court of Awards was held the other night uh high school auditorium. I congratulate all the Girl Scouts that bridged as well as those uh recognized for their uh uh silver awards. Uh that same night the PLS PLHs music department had their uh
year end dinner. Um congratulations to the seniors and uh also to next year's marching band leadership. Uh we're very lucky to have uh Mr. Napa and Mr. Sharid uh be part of the uh music program at the high school and I wanted to give a shout out to the Sha Tree Commission.
The new trees in the south end look great. Um very happy to see them uh placed um in the areas they are. Had a question about the sidewalks being put in um along doors um between Sunset and
uh Olive, oh excuse me, Sunset and Pike. if uh those trees are going to be moved or relocated or looks like the sidewalks are going there. So that is my report. Okay. Uh Mike, do we just reach out to the engineer to find out if they're moving that street? Yes. Okay. What street was that? Excuse me. Council on
the doors between Sunset and P. Okay. Sunset. Thank you. Also had a question. There is no sidewalk between Lincoln and Olive on the north side. Is there going to be sidewalks put on those areas also?
I believe so. Yes. Cuz there is a lot of new trees we just planted. Oh no. I don't know if they could be moved or we'll regroup with our burough engineer and uh that's a big stretch of sidewalk. I'll find out for sure. Okay. That's
between Lincoln and Oliv. Okay. Professional report. Any report? Um yeah, just uh very briefly last week council members, you all should have received copies of the fourth round housing element, the fair share plan. Just a reminder that that will be on the
agenda for the June 25 meeting. The planning board is locked and loaded to adopt it at their June 17 meeting. Um, under the fourth round rules, it's mandatory that this council um adopt it
at their by June 30, which is at our June 25 meeting. Um, if we don't, we, you know, open ourselves up to we lose control of the process and open ourselves up to developers lawsuits and the like. So, it's important that we
adopt it. Um, I did get a chance to go through the report. I'm not sure uh whether you you have yet. It's quite a quite a lengthy report, but H2M's done a very very complete job, a very good job. It reduces our number of unmet need from
105 to 27. And that, you know, when it's adopted, that's going to go to the program. It's not called the state anymore. And unless challenged, that's going to be a significant reduction in our in our affordable housing obligations. So, um, as I said, a
complete report, uh, and a really positive report for the bureau. Um, and if if you have trouble getting to sleep, it's also good for that as well. Um, it's it's a long report, but it's, as I said, it's very complete. And I got to thank Dave and and son are from H2M for
it's very timeconuming putting all this together, you know, in a very short time. Um, and it's a lot of moving parts and things are changing and and you know, they had to stay on top of it. So, thank you for staying on top of it. Son's not here, but I thank her for putting the time in. Michael also put a lot of time into this, so we we I think we're got a finished product now. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's really it's really quite good. Okay. Uh minister's report. Thank you, Mayor. On Thursday, June 5th, I met with the business improvement district's new executive director, uh Abel Gomez, uh to discuss ongoing projects and continued
partnerships with the burough. Uh Mr. Gomez works full-time for the Planefield, New Jersey Business Improvement District. uh for for the public. This here in Pompton Lakes is a part-time position with our business improvement district. Uh separate from the burrow and the position serves at
the pleasure of the board of the bid. Uh so just wanted to get that out there and his pay his pay comes from the bid, not from the tax. Uh Mr. Gomez and I will be working on signage, beautifification, trees, marketing. Uh so we're looking forward to to working with him in the
future. Um the doors highway improvements project is ongoing. Drainage and concrete work uh are expected to last approximately two additional weeks with milling and paving thereafter. Uh again, new sections of sidewalk are being installed uh to
provide for continuous stretches of sidewalk in accordance with our complete streets policy that was adopted several years ago. Uh several driveway aprons and curbing are being repaired due to safety uh and hazard concerns. Um any
changes to the schedule will be posted on the burrow website and on our social media channels. Uh the burrow received an FY2025 PA county community development block grant in the amount of $165,000 that will be used for ADA curb ramp
upgrades on our Arcadia, Albany, and Edwards Avenue. uh next year. So, we're looking forward to that. In addition, the burrow received another grant from the Pay County Open Space Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund for the
library phase 2 exterior upgrades project in the amount of 150,000. That brings our project total to 750,000 in grants. And we're moving for uh bid specifications at this point. So, we're looking forward to that project. And that is a historic building when they
work on it. So that becomes a problem in itself that we can only hire certain construction people and engineers to work on it. Uh in in response to the May 28th council meeting, I did have a chance to meet with the police department uh to discuss the concerns
about parking on Lambert Street. I wanted to thank uh Chief Clark and Lieutenant Klepaki for all their work on that. uh and the ordinance committee of the governing body will be discussing uh the recommendations in the near future uh with the adoption of the state
of New Jersey budget forthcoming. Uh again, we continue to advocate to our legislators on funding for the DPW garage replacement project. Uh the mayor and I have spoken to Senator Ponacio several times in the last month. uh he continues to advocate for us and we
should have an answer by June 30th which is when the state budget must be adopted. Uh and then lastly on a personal note I uh just wanted to let the governing body know that I have been nominated to serve as an executive board member for the New
Jersey Municipal Management Association uh which is a statewide organization that's focused on supporting and advancing local government leadership in the state of New Jersey. uh founded in the 1970s. Its membership-based group uh is made up of municipal managers and is
a resource for all new managers coming into the field. Uh just wanted to thank the governing body for your support and am looking forward to serving the residents for years to come. Thank you. You know, Michael has only been here what now? About a year and a half. Maybe
a year and a half. And you know, there's a lot of moving parts here. So for him jump in full full feet in, it's a big deal. You know, uh, we're lucky enough that he knows the area and he grew up in the area. Um, so he knows what we're looking for and he has a good feel for the community, which to me is one of the more important things for an administrator to kind of know what we're
looking for. So I thank you for that. Um, any questions for the administrator? I have one I have one question, Michael. Um, just from Councilwoman's Ken's comments, I've also had a couple residents ask about monkey bars. I know at one point we discussed there being two parts to that playground and the second installation of new equipment in
the center where all of those picnic tables are. Is that still an option? Uh yeah, I think we could handle monkey bars. I don't think it's going to be all that expensive. Um are we moving forward with removing some of those tables and and re renovating that area as well at some point? Right. So I think the plan
is the DPW met with our recck director to pick out the locations of the tables. if anyone, she uses them the most for summer camp. So, we kind of deferred to her on on the specific locations. So, pending that uh setup, we can look at maybe another smaller section for just
some sort of jungle gym feature. Uh you know, maybe for the fall. Okay. So, thank you. Yeah. Just just so you know, I believe the tables are already down there. They're they're they're stored in the back. Yeah, we have the tables. Yes. Yes. I I we we we just want Karen because you know I go to summer camp a
lot too. They use those tables a lot during summer camp. The kids are hanging out on them all the all the time. So we got to make sure there's enough room for them to hang out on this table. So it's good that we got Karen involved with that to take a look at that. Okay. Any other questions for the administrator? No. Okay. Have a motion to open the meeting for
public comment. Motion. Council Pori. Councilman Cruz. All in favor? Against? Anyone from the public like I'm sorry forgot. Oh, it's okay. We could go back. Oh, we'll do that again. Oh, I'm sorry. I saw a hand.
I see a hand. No, no, I think I saw a hand. No hands. Okay. Uh, that's it. Motion to close the public session. Motion. Councilman Bennon, Council President Polydori, all in favor. Against New Jersey Transit bus show. Thank you, Mayor. Uh so in your packets
tonight uh in response to the NJ Transit uh NJ Transit's correspondence to myself uh again we uh we got the NJ Transit to agree to replace all three of our bus shelters. Two at Lore Street and Wanuk A, the other at 424 Wanuk AB across from
the library. Uh so the NJ Transit did send us uh specific examples of new shelters. Um, so we're just looking for some feedback on what you you would like to see uh for the replacement shelters. You know, they are expensive for the NJ Transit to install. They do have a
capital program that they do this across the state. Uh so we just want to make sure we're picking the right uh unit for our uh municipality. So you'll see different options from, you know, Trenton to Newark to other towns, color schemes. Just looking for some guidance
on that. Let me ask you, are are the insides all with the same mechanics inside? I know we're getting the lights um with LE LED lights, right? That's part of this program. Um is there anything that's different among the inside of these shelters? It really
depends on the on the design. Uh most of the all of them have the same amount of bench space. Oh, that's right. Um it's really just the design what you know would work best in our business and district. All right. All right. So, if everybody just takes a look at one point, can they email you with the ones I like or how would you like to do? You
want to do it now or how you want to do it? Uh, yeah. I think, you know, maybe this saves some time. The governing body can get back to me or just You should have in your packet anyway. If you want to do it now, we can do it now. Take a look at it. If you think you can you need more time, let me know. Well, do do you have a preference as far as like the
difference between Peton and IKEA is flat. Is that an issue in the winter? You can't hear. Okay, we'll talk a little louder, please. Everybody talk a little louder. There's a there's five different options for bus shelters. They
look pretty much the same. They do. Some have domed roofs. Some are peaked. One of them is flat. I'm just curious as to whether or not in the winter that makes a difference if there's heavy snowfall sitting on top of it. Are there certain
things we should be concerned with? Yeah, and that's an excellent point. I think the recommendation would be to have more of a peak structure. Uh we wouldn't want snow to accumulate on top of the shelter. Is that where the solar reflectors are? That's correct. Right. So, but they're responsible if something
was to break to fix them. No, we will be as we have been for years. Okay. Um Well, that's a that's a point. Yeah. All right. So, I guess we we should get away from the flat ones. Everybody agree with that? Yep. Absolutely. Yeah. I guess I
What do you guys think about the new Lisbon? Lisbon. That one right there. I think aesthetically it doesn't make a difference to me as long as it looks nice and it's not I was only concerned about I lived in these things. I lived
in these things. So the same shelter as far as coverage from the coverage is all the same really. I think now as far as garbage and maintaining the interior, that's all going to be a threat. As far as it does get rather disgusting over
time and sometimes the garbage cans are not nearby. So, a lot of the garbage is usually left behind by people getting on the bus. Um, but uh it's that's what I mean. As long as all that and they're on top of that. Um, but I do like the that I mean. All right. So, let me ask you this. Do we have a color preference?
They're all the same color. No, we have a choice, right? The color would be black or dark green uh to the shelter. Why don't we take a two? You got two choices. Black. I think Can we put a garbage can back next to it if that's really going to be an issue? Yeah, I I think we'll have better maintenance now
that they're newer. We'll have garbage cans. We'll have our buildings and grounds crew go there, you know, once a week or so just to clean up the area. Um you know, we've had damage to the shelter in the past year. We've had glass broken, graffiti. So, we're just trying to spruce up the area. Is that
safety glass? Yes. I'm okay. I'm sorry. We're not concerned about injuries if the glass breaks. We have to We have a responsibility for that. If someone uh We would be liable because we're responsible for the maintenance. That's our property, right? Okay. Are we okay?
Everybody okay with black? Yes. Black and one of the two domed ones. Okay. So, everyone's okay with a dome feature, a black shelter. Um yeah. Okay. I'll reach out to NJ Transit and uh we'll let you all know. Thank you. Thank
you. Okay. Approves the floor. I approach the floor. Are we going back to um you have one? Yeah. Yeah. I just got some questions. I've gotten calls from a few residents who are having issues with
our property maintenance manager and our building inspector with problems they have on their property. Is this something that we should talk about in close session or uh Well, if it's on private property that is it's a issue with their private property with the
property manager and the building is back. Is it something you want to talk about? No. Well, that normally gets handled by the building department unless there's a problem. Well, there is a problem. That's they should be reaching out to Michael and explaining the problem. So, I tell the residents to
Yeah, they either call me or Michael and then we'll follow from. Okay. Um, one of those residents is me. Okay, then you should. And it's concerning that tree at 940 Pronic Avenue. I brought it up before.
It went to Linston. It went to um the Shade Tree Commission. I've measured that tree for the last two years. It's dying. It's getting worse. I took pictures of it. There's large limbs hanging over um where the kids cross at
Puquanic and Lincoln. And uh according to um property management and um our building inspector, he says trees are not pro part of property maintenance. Now we had this discussion before and to
no avail, nothing's being done. So, um, well, a professional. Did Lindson look at this tree? Lson has looked at this tree. It's a private property tree, right? But it's hanging dead limbs in the public space over the sidewalk and
over the road and it needs to be addressed. Yeah. Uh, me and you have discussed it on this panel and you said that being it's on private property, we can't do anything. But yes, we can. Anything that
hangs over on public space, we can do something about it. We can cut up. Yes. And we haven't done anything yet. Well, but that wouldn't have anything to do with the building department. That would have to do with Michael. It was addressed by property maintenance and that is the building department. No, but
they wouldn't make a determination on to fix it or not. We made a determination with Sha Tree already that the tree is dangerous. It's on private property and it's not a public tree. So, was Michael made aware of it? That's what I'm asking. Yes, he has. Right. And the
answer is that uh the cha tree commission being that the branches hang over the public rightway have the right to prune the tree up from the rightway but cannot encroach onto the private property. Correct. We've also put the homeowner on notice multiple times, you
know, via mail correspondence. Um, you know, and that's really all we can do with our burrow code at this time. We can, you know, work with the ordinance committee to talk about, you know, perhaps modifying the code, but again, now you're opening yourself up to private property, neighborly disputes.
You know, whether it be a private tree on a fence line that that may be unsafe. Now, we're getting involved in that dispute where right now it's a civil matter between the two residents. And I just got a call just yesterday uh just the exact same thing. uh woman's behind
her on somebody else's home hanging over her. It's dead branches. She's very nervous. She has special needs children and it's and I told her it's a matter between you two. Unfortunately, the town doesn't get involved in that. Um correct. But she has every right to prune that tree. Sure. And I told her yes. All the way to the good lord. Yes.
On her property on it. Correct. And we have every right to do the same thing. Well, I'm asking attorney. Do we have every right? We do. Okay. So we we can theoretically prune above our property. Correct. So I think that's a little different than what Michael's saying where it would be private, right? So this is our property we're talking
about. This is burrow right away. Yes. So could we could prune that, Mike? Yes, that's right. All right. So let's look at having that done. We'll contact Pete of the Shade Tree Commission and the chairman Anna to facilitate perhaps looking at that. I think Pete has already set in the pruning list. um
whether or not we could uh if he's already sent that in, whether we can add it to it or we can talk to our DPW superintendent and have him take care of it. We'll do. Thank you. Okay. Any other question? But it needs to be addressed. Yeah. Well, it looks like we are. So,
thank you. I still had one more question for Michael. Um, I noticed from our last workshop we had the shared service contracts for the repairs which we postponed because we didn't have the time at the special meeting. Are we
revisiting that? Yes, we're going to look at uh the next council meeting. We're paying on a month-to-month basis as it is, so we're not in an immediate rush. Um, it's just a nice change we're looking for. So, we're planning on the June 25th council meeting to at least start the discussions, right? We don't
anticipate a resolve. You know, we'll see how the discussion goes, but we'd like to get it done over the summer at some point. So, thank you. That's for Hudson County Motors. Okay. Can I have a motion to uh go into close session? Councilman Dennon.
Council President Polydori. All in favor? Thank you everyone. We're going to go into close session. Have a good night. Thank you for stepping up. some fun to the family. You aren't in close session. We discussed the
personnel matter uh oh two personnel matters um and the and negotiation I guess and contract negotiation. Motion to adjurnn. Motion second to amending. Councilman Cruz. All in favor? All right, have a good night everybody.