We were just saying how warm it is. Okay. The following is the agenda for the regular Burough Council meeting in the Burough Compton Lace Mayor and County Municipal Corporation of the County of Pay. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. October 8th in the municipal building 25
L Avenue Compton Lakes. consistent with the open public news act be open for public comment and shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of municipal library. We stand for a flag salute to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please bless this merit council as they deliberate on the best of the links. Amen. Amen. In conformance with the open public
meeting law, public law 1975, chapter 231, adequate notice of this meeting, setting forth the time, date, place, and purpose of this regular meeting through notice posted on the bulletin board in the municipal building mailed to all have requested and paid for same and published in the suburban trends. Roll call, please. Mayor Sarah
here. Council president here. Council Cruz here. Council here. Councilman here. Council input here. Council event here.
Attorney David for mention. Okay. Um I have no presentation. So I'm going to go right to the open public. A motion to open the meeting for public comments. Council um Venon Council President Polydori. All in favor? I
against. Anyone from the public like to address? Uh, whichever. Everyone wants to go Hela Zaki on September 10th. I just need your address. I just need your address, please. I don't need to give you my address. Does she need
Yeah, it's uh that's the practice of the bureau. Name and address. How about this? I'll give you my address and you check the legality of that. I'm asking my attorney. That's what I'm doing. I'm asking him if he would check the legality of that.
I will do that. And if I'm right, will you apologize at the next meeting? Uh, he's doing it under my advice. I'm doing what I've done for the last 15 years here. So, you're asking for something different. That's what we're doing. Can you start the clock again, please?
On September 10th, I asked you in writing. Hold on. Did you give your address? Six Butler Street. Thank you. On September 10th, I asked you in writing if Officer Rodriguez was taking a certification program on company time, a course that isn't
related to his job as a police officer. The course totals 171 hours or more than one month's salary. I didn't get an answer, so I'll ask again. It's easy. Yes or no?
If yes, will you allow other officers to take unrelated courses on paid work time? About overtime for the police department, I was surprised to learn that before the current collective bargaining agreement was ratified last
February of 2024, there was no provision for overtime for lieutenants and captains. when the new agreement was negotiated and you remember that officer Rodriguez was on the negotiations team against the
recommendation of the state attorney general and your own policy language was added for overtime for lieutenants and captains. I'm hearing that a few officers earned some overtime pay in 2024,
but the huge majority went to one person. Now, I hate using vague words like huge, so I try to get hard data, but no luck. Your extortion by Oprah is
getting ridiculous. The borrow maintains that you don't keep test scores. So, let me tell you, you decided to hold the captain's test, or is it a waiver and no test? Despite
Lieutenant Klepaki's 90.52 score, one of the highest in the state and still valid until May 2026. Officer Rodriguez's score was 83.37
on the same test date, October 23rd, 2021. Captain Sashawn took the Chief's test a few years earlier and scored an 88. and Derek Clark scored 91.
It would be ironic, wild, really, if Anthony Rodriguez was promoted to captain and chief without ever outscoring anyone in the department
on either test. And seniority counts for 40% of your score on those tests. overlooking Lieutenant Klepaki was outrageous. So, let me get this straight. You've already bypassed Mike Leaki and you're
going to do it again. You're going to eliminate fair competition for the entire department to protect a uniquely unqualified candidate. If you think this is such a a swell
idea, why not be honest with the public? At the very least, wait until the judicial system assesses the severity of his abusive behavior. Why the special treatment?
Why the secrecy? And we haven't even talked about salaries and payroll columns and comp time. Mr. Carelli says there's a separate payroll system for the police department.
When I get that information, I'll be sure to let you know. Your claims about transparency are hollow. You continue to insult the police department and the town of Compton Lakes with your cowardly
behavior. Thank you. Anyone else from public hear? Robert F 29 Waterl Avenue. Uh, been fighting for years trying to get my road repaved. Finally, we're getting it done. Supposedly, it's happening October 13th. I haven't gotten any information on that whatsoever. I've
asked Michael, why are we putting so many pits on the street? Haven't gotten any information on that. The right side of the the right side of the street heading down is the side that gets the most amount of water for putting on the left side of the street. For what reasons? No reasons whatsoever. we could
actually use that money for pits to finish all the sidewalks and the curbs that I was told it's not going to happen. And you, Mr. Mayor, you actually promised me in the beginning of the year this was going to happen. And it didn't happen at all. We're at the end of the year now, which is pretty sad.
Um, what else here? Um, no answers from anybody either. tired of tired of calling leaving messages and then nobody ever calls back. It's kind
of getting pitiful on that situation. And another thing once again, Mr. Mayor, you told me you need to give the DPW 40 hours and jobs to do when they walk around with hot patch. Why on Thursday of this week did they patch in front of
my house, but they didn't patch the deepest hole on the street right next to my driveway? and the street is getting milled and repaid supposedly on October 13th. It's a little bit of a waste of town money again, especially since the
taxes keep going up. Um, another thing I'd like to say, is there any way we can make Edwards Avenue one side of the street parking or let's start issuing tickets for people who are parking too close to the stop signs, too close to the corners? The other town ordinance is we're not supposed to have trailers on
the street overnights. There's a guy that parks his car trailer on the street numerous times. No tickets, no nothing. I Well, I shouldn't say I don't know exactly, but I don't ever see issues, tickets or anything. And cars parking in the wrong direction on the wrong side of the street. I mean, we're getting the P
we're getting the street repaid. We're getting it that let's make it fair. I got a 50 lb garbage can. You won't pick that up with two empty white garbage two white kitchen garbage bags in it. But you'll pick up an 80 lb bag of top patch and drop it on the ground for the DPW
and you won't issue tickets to trailers and cars parked on the wrong side of the street and people parking too close to the corners. It's kind of a, you know, are we pinpointing one person on the street? I don't know. Not positive on that. But it's just pretty sad that I've waited this long to get the water
problem fixed in front of my house. And like I said directly, I still have it on recording. Promise you'll be the first on the list. And yes, and then I got story after story after story and it's been postponed till this time. And it's very
very aggravating. And I just don't uh Oh, and we're looking at we're looking at putting new buildings up. How about getting the ones that are finished that have been sitting around for 3 to 5 years, not nothing being done with them. And we want to bring new people, fresh young people into this
this town. If I was a young person looking to move in this town, taxes are too high. I wouldn't come here. And just because you're putting a new building up, that ain't going to make me want to come into town. You got in the middle of town, you got a guy that has all kinds of cars that aren't moving. That's an eyesore. And you got a two buildings on
on Hamburg turnpike that aren't even finished. And they've been done two to three years, not even finished. I'd like to know. We're working on putting up more buildings. That's kind of a waste to me. So, that's it. Thank you. Thanks. Anyone else from the public would like
to address? Good evening. George, 11:04 KFax Avenue. Sure you know my address by now. Regardless, I'd like to thank the town that we are progressing as far as a solution. Three weeks ago, they did plug up the
hole, so my property will no longer supposedly be damaged by the rains like we had early this morning. As a matter of fact, we are working with contractors as far as getting their bids. We're going to repeat be reviewing those and
hopefully come up with the cost of repairing the damage of 16 years of washouts, walls crumbling, the jeopardy in my backyard and the stress on my family for all those years
as far as having dangerous conditions. However, hopefully we can put that behind us in the next month. I don't know. Mr. Carelli has said he's going to work on it, present to you a budget,
get that approved, and we'll go from there as far as getting it fixed. The next big step is to coordinate the repair work that is essential for 11:02 KFax Avenue, which has to be done before I can start my repairs.
The wall is integrated with that property. If uh I have my contract a contractor cut through the wall, the wall at 11:02 may collapse. I was told that by my engineers today when I pursued other
questions that we needed to have answers for. But the bottom line is the design that the burrow has paid for is the best design to assure that for the rest of my life I won't have to worry about it and
maybe I can take some Wednesday nights off. I'm coming up here and boring you with my problems or family problems really. And let's hope the horizontal pipe going to Pearson Miller Drive works the next heavy rainstorm. We
haven't had one yet. I'm sure we'll have some this fall like we usually do. Thank you for that. Topic number two. If people are speeding into Pmpton Lakes from Oakland at 40 plus miles an hour,
why don't we put a sign right there on the corner of Pearson Miller Drive in KFax that says not speed limit enforced. The person coming in here at 40 has no idea what the speed limit is. A 25 mph
sign can't cost the burrow that much. Now, that's a good investment on the part of taxpayer dollars and it will accommodate the individual who lives at I think it's 1067. I may be wrong. A Kfax Avenue complained about the same
thing. They're going too fast coming in. And I have friends who have visited me and said, "It's a straight road. What the hell's wrong?" I said, "It's a residential road. Let's keep it to 25. I'd like to see that." And I've already spoken to the gentleman as far as do a
study, throw up a sign. How much can it cost? A couple hundred dollars, but you may save a life. I think it's an important thing to consider. Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you. Anyone else from the public like to address?
Seeing no one have a motion to close the public session motion. So move. Council Bennon, council president. All in favor? I against. Uh Miss uh Mwaukee, thank you for your comments. Uh a lot of the stuff you're talking about, uh you didn't take into account that a veteran status,
which was the top of a list when you're a veteran. Uh the gentleman you were talking about is a veteran. The classwork, uh Mike, Do you have any I don't know what we're talking about with the class yet? We have no know I don't know what you're talking about. I'll have to research that. I don't know about the classwork that you're talking about. Um but normally we are pro uh
anyone taking classwork to better their position, no matter what job you have here in the town. So if if a class was offered and he used it, that's to his advantage. Um Robert, yes, I know about your concerns there. We've spoken many times. The uh the at the end of the day,
it's a process. The engineers have to get out there. They have to tell us what to do. We don't make any decisions. I don't. Michael doesn't. The engineers tell us how to fix that. If the engineers are telling us this is where the drains have to go, this is where the drains have to go. We would never overstep that and say this is not where it's going to go. I know you were hoping
it was done earlier. It was delayed, but it's getting done. It will be done. That is the date you will get information. That is the date it's set. It's already put in into the into our engineering firms. That's how we're going to do it. Uh the patchwork you're talking about, they were probably just trying to help
you a little bit to get you through the next week or two. At the end of the day, the patchwork doesn't cost us anything really. It's very cheap and it's our local manpower, so it's not costing us anything. And if there's a hole that's they didn't fix or didn't mix, I'm going to ask uh Councilwoman Palori, I mean um
Kent to reach out to the DPW. At this point, it doesn't really matter because next week they're going to be paving the whole road. Um but uh the other things you brought up about the road, the conditions, the parking, and I I agree with you. If people are parking close to a stop sign or close to a a driveway, someone needs to call and report that.
Our inspectors do not drive around looking for those kind of issues. They're part-time. they work only a couple hours a day and they're very busy doing cos and all those other things. You can call anonymously and says say someone's parked too close to a stop sign or parked the wrong way. I'm sure the chief will go out and investigate uh and see what's going on and if a ticket
is needed they will get a ticket because to me that's a quality of life issue and I see it on my own streets and I don't want to see that on any of our streets. We have the availability in our town. We're one of the few towns that allow you to park on the streets most every
day except during a snow emergency, but there are rules that fall into that. Too close to a driveway, too close to a stop sign, you got to be parked the right way. All those things, if they're not doing that, they're breaking the law, and they should get ticketed on that. Um, I don't know about anybody calling you back. I know Michael and I have talked
many times about the project, when it's going to happen, what the dates are, who, you know, what the engineers are saying. Um, so I I all I can tell you is it is set for October 15th and we'll take it from there. Um, at the end of the day, your road will be done and fixed and hopefully the drainage situation will be fixed. I mean, that's
what our engineers are telling us. Um, Mr. Pop, thank you for the at least acknowledging that we're working in the right direction. It's been a long haul and I understand the frustration you have. Um, you know, again, I'm going to say the same thing and I think you're agreeing with it this time, but the engineers are telling us this is how we
fix this project and I agree with you. Hopefully that pipe is the way it's supposed to do and it's going to work and the situation is solved. Um better communications would help too. Okay. And the um you know, at the end of the day, you're going to have to work out an arrangement with our administrator about the settlement. You
know, we're not here to argue that settlement. We're here to work with you to make that happen. Um it has to be beneficial to both sides. So, I think that's why the conversation going back and forth is important between you two. Uh I I'm going to ask the chief just uh the acting chief to step in about uh 25 mile speed limit. Is there a sign down
that way or no? To my best recollection, there is a sign, but it's not in the location that um it's not right on the border. It's it's further down the road. And I I kind of agree maybe coming in from another town, maybe we want to remind some public that don't know that
the speed limit is 25 when and I don't I think it is faster in that Oakland side, right? It's 35. 35. And is it 35 any part in Pmpton or it's all 25 in? On Kfax, it's all 25. So it's all 25. So maybe it wouldn't hurt to try to get a sign. I know the county owns that. Correct, Mike? That's
their road. That section is uh no municipal. That's municipal. All right. So we can put up it's probably a good suggestion to put up a sign reminding people, hey, in Northtown here, it's 25 miles an hour. Goes into that if there's anything that we have to do. Otherwise, I talk to Dan
tomorrow. See and even if there is another sign, you know, maybe we just move that sign to to enter. And we don't need two signs right next to each other. So big big adventure 300 ft. Okay. So, let's look into that. Okay. Thank you. Can I ask a question about that? Sure.
We have I just saw it tonight on I guess it's Lincolnav. Um the speed electronic sign. Yes. So, the car in front of me, it wasn't me. The car in front of me was going a little too fast and it triggered like what looks like police car lights. Yes. Lights. And then it shows them the
It's an attention getter. People slowed down when they saw that. Do we have more than one of them or can that be rotated between? What determines where that's positioned? So, I I contacted the uh the county earlier in the week and I requested 10 of those. They have a number of them.
So, I had a whole bunch of locations that I wanted to put them. Fortunately, they were only able to get us three. So, I put them at the um put them on uh KFax where we had a a complaint at the last council meeting. Um Lincoln A where we also had a complaint and then Rambo. And
then they were going to be doubled up. Um I'm hopeful to get more to backfill and put it in more locations. So there was actually going to be another one added on KFax, more added on Lincoln, more added on the other side of the Rambo and some other streets. Um but the
simple answer to your question is eventually they will be moved to other locations if the sheriff's department can't get me uh more signs and then we're looking into hopefully getting our own. Can we move one over to where that area is in advance of that? Because the
other roads that you indicated are level set 25 all the way through. That particular area is an immediate drop of 35 to 25. So, it's a little bit different. Is a problem. I just got to call the county if they're okay with us moving their sign board. Otherwise, I'd have to wait for if they're not, then I have to
wait for them to to move it down. Okay. Signs. Yeah. We It's not a metal sign. It's an electronic board that projects the speed and then I fully understand it. I live on Avenue, but come on. I mean, yeah, I agree with you. We we'll work on
it. Okay. Thank you. Something permanent. We won't have to move anything, but tell them what speed it is. Otherwise going to come in at 354. Okay. Motion to approve the following minutes. Regular meeting minutes of September 24th, 2025. Close session
minutes of September 24th, 2025. Have a motion. Motion. Yep. Second council then council had a question. Sure. Um, one of my comments the last time we were talking was about speed bumps and it wasn't entered into the minutes on
that can be entered in. Sure. Appreciate it. Liz, can we kind of u amend those? Yeah. Thank you. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Okay. You who was the second? Uh, can I say a second? I said your name right. Councilman Cruz. I was second.
Okay. No, it was Cruz. Cruz. All in favor? I I have to abstain. Abstain one abstension. Yeah. Okay. Bills and claims as listed below. Can I have a motion? Motion. Councilman Bennett. Need a second.
Second. Councilman Hinton. All in favor? I. Yes. Is that the agenda? Anybody need anything removed? Yes, please. 343. And we're pulling. We're pulling what? 343
343 for Yeah. I'd like you pulling all the collective bargaining. We're pulling all the collective bargain. Mike, are we pulling pulling 340? Okay. So, which that's 40, 41, and 42. We're pulling it off.
Pulling for discussion or moving for a close for a close. Okay. So, 40 41 and 42 and 43 for discussion and 43 will be uh for close session discussion. Yeah. No, 43 is my question or that's close session. No, 43. Yeah, right. No, it's just 40 41
or 42. Okay. 43 is just a discussion. Yeah, I'd like to cover it in close so it you know if if you So, can we pull it if we're going to discuss it? 43 also. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And Mr. H, you have 339.
Pulling it for action after our close session. Correct. Yeah. Action will be taken fellow. All right. Uh 25 339 this. Okay. Any others? No. Okay. Where the mayor and burrow council the
burough council makes the consent agenda bar resolutions where the mayor burrow council the burough council makes those desire to move resolutions for individual actions on that agenda. Now therefore be it resolved that the following resolutions on the agenda
consent agenda are hereby approved. Resolution 25-329 25-344. I'm going to call 25339, 340, 341, 342, and 343. Well, no, we're not we're not voting on
uh 40, 41, or 42 right now. Right. Right. She's pulling that from for later, right? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Can I have a motion? Motion. Councilman Bennett. Second. Councilman Hinton. All in favor? I against. Okay. Resolution 25339.
Um just got to read it. Let authorize final payment application number one for Lakeside to add a new ADA curve grant upgrades. Okay. Go ahead. Um question for Michael. Um jobs for blue overtime. Was that before we decided?
Yeah, this expense was incurred before we changed to in-house traffic control for burrow jobs. Um so no problem at all. Thank you very much. I could just see the money that we saved. Yeah. Okay. Can we uh $15,000? Thank you.
That was an up number. Um can I have a motion for 25-339? Motion. Councilman Venon. Second. Councilman Hinton. All in favor? I against. 25343. Are we doing that now, right? No. Oh, and that's in close session, too.
Yeah, we're going to Y. Oh, wow. Look at that. That's great. Look at that. All right. Under my report, let me just get to the calendar. I attended a PBA dinner which was a lot of fun and thank you the uh PBA for
sponsoring that. It was also good that they had comedians and mistakenly they thought somebody else was the mayor and he took all the heat for me which was perfect. I didn't speak up to let them know there was a mistake which was great. Um I attended the Knights of Columbus golf outing. They always do a great
fundraiser to uh support all the funds and events they do out throughout the year. I attended an event with our senator uh Joe Pacio. It was a nice event. Got good to talk to other mayors there about situations that we're all dealing with. I did a couple weddings.
Um I had a meeting with our uh acting chief. Uh today I was invited to speak at a ribbon cutting for the county uh on
their project over what they're calling Liberty, which is the new senior and vet housing. Uh they had a presentation there and they're they're going to start hopefully looking at getting people's names and numbers around January. They're not holding us
to that date. There is I think 56 units. There are income verification requirements needed to enter that. There's a low, there's a medium, there's a high. Um, it can be double occupancy as long as you have a a partner or or married. Um, you have to meet the income
verifications. Um, they're hoping, fingers crossed, to have the project finished beginning of the summertime. I think that's pushing it, but they are moving pretty quickly on the building. And and I can tell you it was a good conversation. This is one of the first county town joint projects. Um, and it
was worked out well. And the deal that was worked out puts our vets and our seniors at first line to get into that into that establishment. There is not another building like this in the town in the town of Panic that is shared between two and that and I can tell you the county uh was very thankful for the
fact that we here up here did that and made that work for them and for us. Um a lot of towns were saying we didn't want it. Uh but you know the deal that's worked out it is right now is for our vets and our seniors and anything north of Pompton Lakes after that. So, anything from Pmpton Lakes and up would
be entitled to go. Anybody south of Pmpton Lakes has other avenues to attend and other places to go and they would be using those. So, I mean, if you have been past the project, it's on Ringwood Avenue. It's set back. It's where the old um uh t uh county garage was. And
part of that deal was redoing our whole recycling center. And you haven't been to our new recycling center. It's a big plus. I hear from a lot of the residents right now loving the recycling center and how it sits and how it works. We have a salt dome which they were going to move to uh Wayne off 23 and we would
have had to get our salt in in Wayne and I con convinced them maybe you need a salt dome up here still because you do still have to do West Milford and Waniku and and Ringwood and and they listened and they built the salt dome here which we will be also storing our salt in. So that's a savings for us too. Um so all
in all this is what you call a real shared service project and it's done with the county. So I I thank everybody involved with that project and that is my report. Council President Paul Dur. Thank you. Uh I also attended the PBA beef stake. It was a really good night and a lot of fun. So I want to thank our
our PBA for putting that together. Uh I attended the first women's club meeting of the year. They have a lot on the agenda for um action plans for working with the community. So I thank them for all of their hard work. I attended uh through Christ Church blessing of the
animals which was a lovely event put on by Christ Church in the morning and then shortly after that St. Mary's did the same thing and additionally the Palton Reform Church hosted a community dinner where they were able to use some of the vegetables that we grew in the community garden this summer in the chili that
they serve at the dinner. So three different things going on through town in the past month from our religious organizations that all give back to the community. So, I just want to give a shout out to the people that make that possible and thank them for their partnership in our community as well.
Um, let's see. I spoke with our prevention coalition coordinator who is here now, Ryan Gosser, uh, to get an update on what is going on with prevention coalition. And the message I received was that the
Pmpton Lakes Prevention Coalition has started a monthly health and wellness tip of the month which is being published around the 15th of each month in coordination with students in the high school that are part of the health and wellness coalition, our prevention coalition, uh, and working alongside of
Dr. P on the design. So, I think that's a great partnership. I look forward to seeing what that looks like. I thank Ryan for spearheading that and for taking the initiative. Uh he also informed me that there was a leadership meeting uh with art. I'm actually going to ask you Michael going forward if you
could include me on the next one. It was a discussion that took place in regards to the recent opioid settlement and uh some plans for f future use for that. So I am going to sit in the next week or two with Ryan and and get brought up to speed on what was discussed and then ask to be included in the conversation going
forward. The next prevention coalition meeting is October 27th at 6 p.m. It's held at 274 Wanqav. Uh but there is also a Zoom link available for those that cannot attend in person. And then just a couple questions I want to follow up on.
First, um as we head into the end of the year, I just want to make sure that we are following standard practice established a few months ago and asking for RFQ submissions for the professionals. Yes, we Uh yes, all RFQS were adopted tonight have been solicited in in the uh
newspaper and are posted on the League of Municipalities website as we have done for the last three cycles. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. And um also we talked about this two meetings ago uh
workshop. I know I wasn't at the last meeting, but if we could put on to discuss a site location for potentially putting up that Pompton Lakes postage stamp billboard. I know we said we were going to talk about that. Yeah, I uh was talking with Dan and Nikki at the DPW and they were trying to
work out a quote for the boat house at Lakeside Park and I just haven't had an answer yet, but I'll try to get it for the next uh meeting. Okay. So, what is what are they looking at? A quote to We're trying to see if we can um prepare the surface for a mural.
That's really what it cuz we're going to be siding the boat house at some point. So, we're we're interested to see what would it take to prepare the site to do that. And what would the recommendation be of the contractor for something like that? Is it flat vinyl space? Do we just leave the wood in the front and paint on
it? Um we want to make sure it looks good so we can prep it for that. And then we'll talk about, you know, what do we do for that m, you know, mural and what is the cost of that. Okay. So, I didn't realize we were that far along. That's awesome. Um, I was talking with someone when I brought this up about a year ago that actually did
the design and the construction of one on his own facility. Uh, so I can reach out and ask if it helps you, what the recommended surface would be, and what we're looking at as far as a cost. He actually does the artwork, too. I don't know if he would be interested in doing it for us, but I can see what like a
preliminary quote on that would be. Okay. Yeah, that'd be great. Um, and I think that was it. That is my report. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Hton. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I have a motion motion to approve the request of
the Pumpton Lakes Chamber of Commerce to close Waniku Avenue between Pumpton and Lakeside Avenue between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 900 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, 2025 for the annual holiday
stroll. also to use Barttoff Avenue, Ramapo Avenue, and Lakeside Avenue as a detour route and to hang a banner to promote the holiday stroll across Wanuku A from November 10th to December 9th,
2025. Pay County Board of Commissioners, Office of County Engineer, Morris County Municipal, JIF, Police and Fire Departments have been notified. Can I have a second?
Second. Council Vetted. All in favor? I against. Okay. Um, in my report, I just want to mention once again, I had mentioned at the last meeting that October 20th, the MUA is going to have fire hydrant flushing. So,
um I'll remind again at the next meeting just so that the public is aware. Um they're going to do it from 12 midnight to 6:00 in the morning. If you have brown water coming out of your cold faucet, just run it until it clears. Do not run your hot water. You don't want
that brown water going into your hot water heater. Um then I attended the uh senior meeting. We had 24 seniors. Um, they asked me a lot of times uh to give a little report from these council meetings and uh we
talked about speed bumps. Gez, I wonder how that came up. I don't know. Uh there was 24 in attendance. I asked the surveyor what they thought about speed bumps. Everybody raised their hand and they thought that it was a good idea
as opposed to running stop signs or people flying down Doors Highway was another gentleman I talked to. Um, while I was talking to him, I was watering trees. Um, I don't know if I'm supposed to, but these were my trees I planted
years ago. So, they're not your trees. Well, they're the town's trees. Town trees, but I take them personally. Yes. Okay. But I was talking to him. While I was talking to him, he lives on Pine Street. Uh he says he'd like to see a speed bump on Pine Street because they fly down there. And while we were
talking, the kid flew by us about 60 65 miles an hour on Doors Highway. So there is an issue. And like the chief in charge said, if he can get more signs, that would be another location to put one of those county signs up. Um but the
seniors all raised their hands. They're not afraid of speed bumps. Um let's see and um oh also uh last meeting Mrs. Frey from two
summit had wrote two letters a letter to um the governor office about the DuPont money and I was curious is are we going to write a letter? We're going to have a discussion in workshop and we'll talk about it there. Okay, good. And uh she also wrote a
letter to the county about the deer situation. So I mean if we can do that too, I would definitely sign that letter. Um let's see what else was there.
And uh oh I already talked about the my comments about speed bumps in the minutes and Liz will take care of that. Um, and also I would like to ask if I could um be absent from the open space meeting tomorrow. Uh,
well, there's one vote and a negative. It's my 72nd birthday and uh we're family's all going out. Happy birthday. Thank you. Happy birthday. Thank you. And that is my report. Thank you, Mayor. Councilman Hint just reminded me
of something I neglected to mention to the burough administrator. I forgot and um I was reminded of it with the the road closure for Councilman Hinton. Um I've been in talks with one of our residents that coordinates the toys for tots program through the schools along
with um Dr. Emoroso. We're working on creating the program for the elementary schools in conjunction with coordinating us being the stop again this year. For the next meeting, can you please put the road closure request on? I'm starting to
coordinate the vendors and the program for the day. Perfect. I have the date. Unfortunately, I don't have it right in front of me, but I will email it to you. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Uh Councilwoman Kent. Uh thank you, Mayor. Um,
I'm very happy to hear Mr. Popoff was happy. It's been three or four years that I've sat here and and I know it's been an issue. So, I thank you um, Michael for working with him for all this time and I'm I'm I'm sure it's going to work. You know, we have a very
good engineer, so I'm sure it's going to work. So, thank you for that. Um, okay. Okay. So, as far as a DPW is concerned, uh we have new street signs for the south end of town and once they are sorted, they will be installed. So, the
installation will start to begin probably next week. That's great news because I have a lot of the south end residents saying, "How come the north side got it?" Great. And there were and there were streets without signs down in the south end. So, good news. Yeah. So, that's a that's a
welcome uh item. And then this Thursday, so tomorrow and then on Friday is the start of single pickup uh for your garbage because they'll be picking up leaves. Okay? So please everyone look at the calendar. Make sure you understand
your garbage day is now going to switch. So uh take a look at your calendar. South end is different than the north end. Um but you'll have one pickup for garbage up until I think probably sometime in December. So take a look at that and make sure you understand that.
Councilwoman, it's also just I just want to throw in that is not grass clippings. They can't It's just leaves. Just leaves. Just leaves. Yes. Uh grass clippings go to the recycling center if you wish to do that. Okay. Uh the catch basin cleaning will start in a few weeks because we have to do that as part of
our our permitting uh requirements for our storm water management plan. So residents will see a ringwood truck coming around and they're going to be cleaning out the uh the basins. So that that's also a very welcome thing especially but um I believe we're going to be coming up to uh you know rain
season at some point. Let's let's hope. Anyway, so we want to keep those uh those catch basins clean, let the water go fl go in and go out. Um if you have potholes or if you have issues, please bring them to our attention because they
are going to start doing uh filling of the potholes. And yes, they did fill. There was a gentleman here last week and they talked about um Summit Falls, that road at Summit Falls and Hamburg Turnpike that was repaired. May there uh what they did is they they put the metal
grate down and then they put a tar patch around the metal grate because the reason they put the cones there was because the the ground wasn't flat and so the metal grate came up a little bit. So in order to not damage your tires, they put the cones there, but that
didn't work. And they knew that. And the problem, the reason that they had to do that is because they couldn't get the the contractor to come out and finish the basin. So, that's all been worked out. So, I want to thank the gentleman who came here. And I got to say that that gentleman called me thanking us for fixing it and he was very happy that it moved so
quickly. Okay. So, it's nice to make residents happy once in a while. Thank you. Okay, that's good. Um, I also attended the PBA beef steak dinner and it was fun and uh thank you very much. And it was was really wonderful to see the support that went
to the PDA. Even more so the tricky tray and all the things that they had there were were was wonderful and it was it was a great time and it helps our our police. Um our Willow A Avenue improve our Willow improvement project down at the south end with the ball fields have
it's started just so everyone knows that's a seven-year project that finally got off the ground. Ed as an open space, one of the biggest open space projects we've taken on in about 20 years and uh we're going to hope that thing comes out well because it should. Uh we're mayor,
you've been working with the baseball people and um I think it's a you know it's going to be a welcomed event. We did not have a groundbreaking at the time because because of schedules for a number of people, but we will have a ribbon uh cutting when the project is
done in and we're anticipating in the spring. So very happy to to hear about that. Um this Sunday is the Chamber of Commerce car show. Uh it's it's on uh the main drive on Q Avenue. It's I think they have u 2,000 people around that
come and I think they have over 200 cars. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's free. Bring the kids and they have music uh from the old days. So there's a it's a really a good it's a good event and the children love it and everybody relates to it, you know. So, please come and
unfortunately they're calling for rain Sunday. Well, then okay. And if even if there's a little rain because of the cars, they'll cancel it. So, just keep an eye out that it might be cancelled. So, yeah, if it's canceled, it will be put in uh social media. So, check your social media uh page on that and it will be on the following Sunday, which is I
believe the 19th. Yes, 19th. Okay. So, but if if it doesn't rain, come. All right. And uh and oh, and then we're so we've we had a a a contest of naming the turtle
in the Hurstfield Park. It's a mascot. The open space committee named uh selected two uh second graders from Lake Lincoln School and uh Lennox School. And
there are two uh names for this. There's a boy and a girl for this cute little turtle. That's our mascot now. And his name Kevin Skully. And the artwork is adorable. So, I coordinated uh with the two
um principles of the school and they are going to have a ribbon cutting October 28th. Is that the date? Yes. A date? Yeah. And uh we worked really hard to get a date because the schools are booked. We tried to get something on a Saturday and they just couldn't do it in November. They can't
do it in November. So, it's unfortunately it'll be Tuesday the 28th at 4:30. It's a maybe a little early for some people. It's late, but then five o'clock it's going to be dark. So, we really had to squeeze it in there. So, that's what happened with that. So, I everyone's welcome to come and the kids
will be there. We'll show off the the cute little turtle that we have. And that is my report. Okay. Thank you. Uh Councilman Quinn, thank you. Uh early last week I was getting my haircut and uh I walking back to my car. I passed Cares and they had
their uh they had a table out. So I asked them what was going on. It was light up light the night for uh to support uh recovery. Uh and uh I took one of the bags and put the light out
that night. Uh, also they said that Pompton Lakes has been one of the most engaged communities as far as interacting with CARES. I was happy to hear that they specifically made uh named the library and and uh the police department. So, thank you AJ and to the
library too. Uh they also had a packet that I don't know if uh your gentleman use it AJ but you hand it off to anybody that you are cannot take into custody that you that is having an issue with
drugs and it has uh phone numbers and uh websites for them to visit if uh if they decide to try and clean themselves up. And it's small packet. I think uh the guys could carry it in the car. No
problem. If they don't already, they might. Uh in addition, uh I attended the Pompton Post Music Festival. It was with my family. It was a lot of fun. Good music, food. Uh I signed checks
early yesterday. Uh notifications from the recreation department. Uh recreation. There's a get fit program Mondays and Wednesdays 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Uh goes through the 19th of November at Lincoln
School, $55 for all sessions, 40 for 10 sessions, five to drop in. Uh teen costume party October 28th, 7 to 8:30 at the VFW, grades 6 through 8. There's a DJ, so there's a $5 admission. Pumpkin Hunt, Sunday, October 26th, 700
p.m. PreK through sixth field, uh sixth grade at Hirsch Field Park. Uh flu vaccinations available the next three Wednesdays 25 Lennox Health Department. Uh the 13th 2 to 5:00 p.m. The 20th 3 to
4:30 p.m. The 27th 3 to 5:00 p.m. $15 and free with Medicare. Uh just real quick, Councilman, uh for the um the pumpkin hunt, they should bring a flashlight. It's very dark, so Okay, everybody should bring a flashlight for comment to them.
Uh, Pompton Lakes Education Foundation trivia night. Proceeds go to teacher miniig grants. It's at the Episcopal Church, 400 Grand Po A, October 23rd, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Doors open 6:30. Walking club Tuesday and Thursday at Lakeside School, 7:00 p.m. Free. The
Wayne Health Department has offered uh Pompton citizens uh blood screenings at $27 October 17th, 2025 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. 479 Valley Road Wayne Health room number
two and pickle ball. Uh November 1st to December 6th and December 13th to January 10th on Saturdays. Uh there's
those are the two sessions. Uh I believe there's a price for each. I apologize I don't have it here. And finally, an October fest party at the Elks October 17th. $20 pre-sale, $25 at the door. Best costume prize. So bring your leader
hosen and durnles. Thank you. Thank you. There you go. Uh Councilman Bennett. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, I also attended the PBA beef steak and I'm happy to report that I won a boogie board from the tree tray. So, that's adult-siz boogie board. I'm looking forward to
using it next summer. Um, this past weekend I uh did a some outreach with the robotics team that I'm a coach of. Uh, this was at the Red Bulls Arena. I' not been there. It's now called the Sports Illustrated Stadium or something like that. Yeah, it was weird. It messed me up. Um, uh, I
would like to thank our host, Cosmic Goose. uh the team out of Glenrock and uh was able to watch my first uh professional women's soccer game. It was the New York Gotham versus the Seattle Rain and the final score was 000. Wow.
Uh I went down to Ruckers University to uh attend a uh info session panel with UPS uh the women in computer science group. They held a a panel there and I was able to talk to the students about my career at UPS and uh the various
career paths. And lastly, I just finished my uh jury duty uh down in Patterson the last couple days. It was very streamlined process. You watch a video to let you know what you're in for and what to expect. Uh they had a shuttle from Garrett Mountain which was very efficient, very close, easy to get
to, plenty of parking. um and um know that without jurors, folks that um volunteer to go down there, the the court system just would wouldn't work. So, uh I'm good for three years now at least. And that is my report, mayor. Oh, so there's a timetable on it now.
Three years, you don't have to go back. Yeah. Great. If they didn't call you, you can just tell them that you know, uh Councilman Cruz. Thank you, Mayor. I attended the board of education meeting last night. Um, one of the items that was voted on last night was a new dual enrollment partnership with Berkeley College. So,
for those of you that don't know, um, PLHs high school students can earn can take college courses and earn college credits before they even graduate, which is a fantastic, uh, program. Some of the colleges I just want to highlight some of the partnerships we have is William Patterson University, Ramapo College,
Berkeley College, State County Community College, and Sean Hall University. So, that's fantastic. My daughter is actually in two classes right now. very hard, but it's worth it. When you do get to college, obviously some of these classes already, depending on the school, will be accepted. So, that's
great. And um I'm welcoming uh Berkeley College on board. Uh new generators to be installed across all schools. This to be completed December 5th. Total cost for said project is $727,000. Um I'd like to wish Mrs. Lori Ki on a
soontobe happy retirement. She I think she has been with the district now 26 years and I just want to read off a little bit of what the board of ed had to say. Uh for those of you that know her, she began working as a business leader at Pmpton Lakes High School. She
is a favorite among students who enjoy her classes and appreciate her genuine kindness and care. Mrs. County has also done an exceptional job as the adviser to the school's future business leaders. That's another excellent program. Her last day will be June 30th uh 2026. So,
we wish her the best. Obviously, I'll bring that up at the next, you know, on my report. Um, there was a presentation by Dr. Jane Tannis. This was a report for the spring 25 New Jersey state learning assessment which involved English, language arts, math, and science, dynamic learning map, district
results. It's a very comprehensive report. I'm not going to go over it right here. Uh, but I will say that the students on average met or exceeded state scores. If you're interested in learning more about that, the report itself for the presentation will be posted on the district website. It's about 10 to 12 pages long, but it
provides a lot of good information, not only on the curriculum, but the dedication of our teachers. No student is left behind and I think these scores are a clear reflection of that. So, that'll do it for my report, man. Yeah, that program you're talking about, my own children took advantage of it. And you can really save some money to college if you take those college
classes in high school. They they accredit you when you get to the college and then you it's one one less class you have to take which is it's a great program. Uh B turns report uh mayor just very briefly at our last meeting there was some question whether the burrow could prohibit people from
feeding deer or other uh wildlife on private property. I have confirmed that we we are able to do that and so I will put put a draft of something together for the ordinance committee considerations. So and is that enforceable do you know by the police or building It is. Okay.
Even on private property. Yes. On private property. That's that's what I was confirmed. On private property. If if we adopt an ordinance saying yeah, right now we do not have an ordinance that prohibits that. But we are able to adopt an amendment to that
ordinance to make it illegal to feed deer, bear, other forms of wildlife on uh on private property. Some some municipalities, and this is a lake community, so this may be something we want to consider. um uh prohibit the feeding of water foul on private
property. So all all things that I'll I'll provide the ordinance committee with. So you can be specific. I mean you can't say all wildlife people have bird feeders. No no no it's it's typically it's it's you you define wildlife to include bear
deer things like that. Yeah. Well that's that falls underwater family. Yeah. Yeah. So okay that's it. Yeah that's it. Thank you. Administer's report. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Uh please be advised that the burrow's 2025 road
resurfacing program was completed this week. Uh the burrow's contractor had returned to perform line striping. Uh we do have a few punchless items uh left to do in the coming weeks. Um we still have to stripe the Hersfield tarp basketball court, which is expected to be done next
week. Um and we will post a closure notice beforehand and notify the recreation director and make sure that it's safe uh and that no one goes on the court uh thereafter. Uh just an update from the last council meeting. A question came up from the public about
the water pressure at Lakeside Park and the water fountains. Uh we did inspect the site and everything appears to be in working order. Um please note that our new bench policy is posted on the website. So uh again our bench donation
program policy is posted. We did receive one application so far with a fee uh for Hersfield Park. So we are working with our rec director and open space on the placement of that bench. Um wanted to highlight that the Pay County's new
director of the division of economic development Gian Carlo D. Leonardo uh wants to come to our next council meeting to discuss uh what services the county can offer to us and to businesses in Pompton Lakes. Uh so that's going to
be a presentation at the next meeting. Uh just wanted to highlight uh I know our burough clerk doesn't necessarily have a report but the last day to register to vote uh for the general election is November I'm sorry is October 14th. That's the last day to
register to vote and we will have late night voter registration for the residents. Uh so you can find that on our website and social media uh in the coming days. And just wanted to highlight that the ordinance committee is scheduled to meet next week to
discuss several ordinance revisions including Lambert Street, chickens, uh deer, etc. So, we will be uh reporting back with our findings in the coming weeks on that. And then Councilman Hinton just wanted me to highlight and
the mayor had brought this up before uh the affordable housing veteran and senior housing project on Ringwood A. The applications for eligible residents is expected to open later this year, right? And we are not accepting any
formal list here at the burrow. It will be promulgated and posted on our website when the time comes. First come, first serve basis based on eligibility and we will post it as soon as we have it. I know we've had have had many calls about it and people coming in um but no
official announcement yet, but it is coming and that's my report. And I think just to double up on that, that's a county project. So I know residents don't understand that, but we we are not overseeing that. The county is overseeing that. So, we have no say on who gets in and who gets out not into it. They're not opening up the list yet
to be registered, but once they do, you'd have to contact the county to do that. It wouldn't be through us here at town. Can I ask a question or Well, I just want to bring that up. I brought that up with Michael uh at the last senior's meeting I went, the seniors informed me that our clerk was
taking a list for those units and I says, "I do not know anything about that." No. So, I brought it up with Michael and Michael confirmed that our clerk is not taking a list for those units. She might be taking a list for information about it. That's what I'm doing. If any comebody
comes in, I take their name and I put it in a folder and I explain to everybody that this is not getting you on any list that this is just if there's information available that they provide you the information that our burrow doesn't is not in the process included in the
process. That's how I was explained, right? That's what I was just trying to impress upon the seniors. And then I talked to Michael and found out and and I get probably two calls a week. Some of them are the same people cuz they're very excited to try to get in there. Sure. But again, it has nothing to do with anybody in the burrow here. They would all go through the county and they'll set up their standards and you
have to meet the verifications and requirements and the income and all those. What's the final number of units in that? What's that? What's the final number of units? 56, I think. Oh, there are that many? And and it can, like I said, it can be double occupancy. Um their the rooms are big enough for the bedrooms are big enough for double
occupants. Did you have a question? Yeah, just quickly. So do you know how the format is? Is it going to be a PDF file that they have to print or is it an electronic form? So right now they have put out and I'll send it to I thought I sent it to everybody. There is a flyer preliminary
flyer that they sent out which is just basic information and there's going to be three standards in it. There's going to be low, medium and high. The low number, the low income number is very low. The medium is a little higher and and high is high. Okay. And they're going to I don't know how many units they're breaking out for low, medium, and high. So, you could qualify. You might not
qualify for a low, but you might make it to a medium, you know, but I should let the public know because I did talk to them today about it. All income counts into that. Social Security, pension, any of that stuff counts towards the number of what you need to make. So, um it doesn't matter how much you have in your
bank account, but the interest that you collect from your bank account would count as income. So it's those kind of things that you have to verify and we have no say on that but that's county say the other reason I was asking is just in case you know they may not have access to a printer email to even check or even
go on there is it possible is it allowed that we could have printed copies of those applications here so that way they can come in and get sure and we'll as soon as we get it we'll be posting it on our website but you're right there's people who can't get on the computer so yes we we thank you mayor and and remember for this this
is for the public the vets get first shot at And I'm still trying to find out if they even have income verification. There might be, but a vet would be the top of the list that gets in. Vet from Compton would be the first thing. Okay. So, I've had a lot of people reach out and ask about the application process. Also, I know we don't have all of the
information solidified yet, but do we have enough to put like a blur out on social media so that we can set expectations? Yeah. Like, you know, it's possibly that it'll come out in January so that people don't keep asking. They know that it's not going to be for a couple months. Yeah. I'll work on a message and I'll
have it kind of approved by the county and we'll we'll definitely work on put uh you know put something out there. Definitely reiterating that it is a county project. Right. A lot of the seniors that come in don't use social media. So that's why they're
I've had people ask for their parents. Yeah. So we'll reach a demographic of people that are but you are right. Most and that's why I tell them just call me. uh if there's you know they keep calling me and I give you know say there's no off date so they're more than
welcome to reach out to my office and you know I I I will take their name and once they the county gets a um a you know how the procedure I will give those names for them to be contacted. Are we expecting for January a high
influx of questions or in or residents coming in? Absolutely. I would say we prepare for that in advance because that's going to be tough obviously on everyone. Do we answer them or do we direct them to some county representative that I would imagine they're going to come in no matter what
right? There's nothing really out yet. They're still working on that. There's more for January as we get closer to that number when the application process is open. I would imagine there's going to be a million questions and they're going to and that should go to town by the way and it should but I know they're going to come here first because we're going to be the first point of contact. How we
direct that obviously is something you guys should be mindful. The goal from this beginning was hopefully we fill it with vets and seniors from Compton and we fill the whole thing and then we don't have to worry about going outside. Like I don't know if that can happen but that was the goal of the sol. So I guess as detailed as possible with what we have we could put out on social
media and I don't have cable so I don't know how this works but is it possible to put a bullet in on 77? Yeah definitely. Okay. I'll uh try to have something for the next meeting. Okay. Thank you Michael. Also Mr. mayor the conversation we had this afternoon you were telling me about how it's being built with a lot of local
kids yeah it's an interesting program so some of the people there uh you know uh the tradesmen were all there sp uh sp sponsoring the work that was done and there's a big push within the county to to use local tradesmen to get the job done and to educate kids in school
especially high school that trades is another option outside of of uh college so I can tell you that uh and this is what myself and and Randy were talking about the um Carpenters Union already has a program going on in the high school right now to kind of gear people towards towards that. Um and I can tell
you that he introduced me to three kids that were there just to kind of support everything who were from Pompton Lakes who are taking advantage of this training. They're not wood, they're not uh craft yet, they're not electricians, they're not plumbers, but they're interested enough that they want to part of the process. So the county and Michael and I were talking today, I
don't there's an actual name for this program. I don't know. I do remember that um the county is going to try to use that. So it the the example that they gave to me was say we have a a roof that has to be shingled and our DPW is too busy. This trade group with the help
of these local kids can supply the trade people to fix to do that roof at a lower cost that would cost us to go out to bid. So it it seems to me like a good program all in all for everybody. It gives more education to the trades which has kind of been neglected a little bit in recent years. Um, so there I think
that's the goal at the end of the day is to try to educate the kids in high school about the trades. So it's like an apprenticeship program for the kids almost. Yeah, almost. But it's a great program. I think Yeah, it sounds like a very good program. Is that the direct hire program? Uh, I don't know what it's called in town. I know the only one they have is the wood shop.
Direct hire because there's a big push in the county for municipalities to use direct hire now. Actually, someone sent me information on it. I'll forward it to you. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions for the administrator? Can we use them for our uh garage? And uh No, I asked him. that first of all is going out to bid,
so it's not going to work. But, uh, you know, but he was very nice and and they're they come out of Bergen County, so they had all three trades there, uh, representing, uh, and two kids from Pompton Lakes High School who were actually working on the project as we speak. That was interesting. Um, yes, I have another question for the
administrator. Um, from what I came across in emails, it seemed that uh OEM and the police department and the fire, I mean the first aid squad are asking about a generator for the civic center.
Is that a good possibility that we We're in discussion right now to see how we can make that happen. It's expensive. We're looking right now. Everything's expensive this a real generator is very expensive. We're looking right now to see if we can make the site what's called make ready. and that we can set it up to have a
generator in the future, meaning all the gas piping and whatever else electrical uh equipment may be required. So, our engineer was on the site yesterday. So, we are okay cuz we have this generator out here which works for this building, but for the civic center in the time of real
emergency would come in very handy if we had a generator there also. And we will also thank to OEM and for Al reaching out to us uh about uh we're going to add more strips and power within the civic center because we're going to use that as a charging station of people who lose power. So having more outlets to make
that happen would be beneficial. So we look Thank you very much. Any other questions? Um just regarding that and Mr. Evangelista can speak to this. I mean is the civic center uh shelter ready? Is the intent for us to use it as a possible it's a charging stationing station and
station. performance center. Yeah, it wouldn't be used for a shelter because that would be overnight accommodations. So, in one of the events, and you may not have seen it, but we had a power outage where we actually had people in this room and in the lobby here of the police station charging their devices
while they were sitting on the floor. It's really not a good use of them. Thanks, sir. So, we're looking at putting not only just electrical outlets, but the USB ports that they can charge all around the room. Fantastic. We can use it both ways. Any other questions? Um, Mr. Mr. Evangelista, can you address
that from the podium when uh next public session so that the public can hear it? Cuz they probably can't hear it from where you're sitting. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to ask our acting chief to step up. You have anything you want to say? Sure. Just on that note, too, it also is going to house our female locker room and
we're going to have some offices in the back as well in that building. So, I'll be brief. I just want to um highlight that September was a you know very active month for the department with several major incidences requiring uh significant coordination and and
teamwork. So I'm sure as you know with our press release um over on Acriman um and that organized theft ring you know I I have to uh uh you know give a shout out to my guys officers on patrol. Um it
was an exemp it was an excellent example of uh proactive uh patrol work and then it became a whole inter agency cooperation. Uh so just quickly um it began as a call for a suspicious vehicle
on the roadway uh from a resident. Um, our officers quickly determined uh once they got on scene and after they uh were uh dealing with the incident a little bit upon uh further investigation that that these individuals were a part of a
large scale organized theft ring. Uh at that point um they uh made arrests of five individuals and uh with coordination with the uh FBI they ended up taking them into custody and getting these individuals off the street and and out of our community. Um, we also dealt
with uh uh you know, we responded to uh multiple house fires this month. Uh, our officers assisted with traffic control, uh, scene safety, and uh helped with uh any displaced residents. Um, I just want to highlight the great
teamwork that we always have uh with our with with our fire department. Um, we also dealt with uh another serious uh matter where uh it came to our attention that threats were being uh made uh
against uh sitting superior court judge in Pay County. Um, so our uh patrol and our detective bureau uh worked closely with the P County prosecutor's office and the state police and uh we also made uh an arrest in in uh that situation and
uh he was taken uh into custody very swiftly and the state police ultimately uh charged that individual. Um going forward we're ready for the car show this Sunday. Hopefully the weather is good. uh we'll have people there to make sure everybody's everybody's safe
and that the event runs smoothly. And uh that's all I got for September. And I'm just going to add for this is for the public. It's the calls from the public that help in getting your job done. So if public sees something, don't be afraid to call the police department. Doesn't they don't feel obligated that
you you can't do that. Even if a car is parked the wrong way, as somebody mentioned before, that doesn't hurt to call because that could lead to something else. So it it you know I know some residents say I don't want to bother the police with that. I don't want to bother the police with that. That's what we want. It's those little calls that start the ball rolling to some bigger ones and I think that it
actually happened with this bigger people. Yeah, we do. Um and I just want to, you know, take a moment to reiterate that point. We definitely want our residents to call to let us know and um depending on the situation, you know, uh there was some question as as maybe if we're
highlighting the people that make these calls or not making these calls and those depend on the situation and typically in press releases. um we and especially this one where you're dealing with some dangerous people, you you you don't always want to highlight those people or how those phone calls come in
or or name them by name or address. Um we try to at times leave it vague. Sometimes we do put a little bit more information than other times, but those are the reasons for that. We're trying to make sure everybody's safe there. Okay. Thank you.
Okay. uh workshop. Uh yeah, this uh workshop uh best practices. Thank you, mayor. Uh so, as most of the governing body may know, it's an annual tradition. Uh the state of New Jersey promulgates what's called the best
practices inventory that's released by the Department of Community Affairs of the state of New Jersey. It's a scored survey uh with best practice questions on budgeting and personnel matters that ultimately affects how much uh state aid
that we get in our fiscal year budget. So the survey is due at the end of the month. Uh the CFO and I completed it. It's included in your packets if if you have any questions or concerns. Uh just to highlight uh some of the scored questions that we were deficient in
include cannabis. A lot on cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, retail uh seem to be in the survey. We are not doing that here. So we didn't get a good score with that. Um there were questions about EV chargers having municipally
owned EV charging stations that we were deficient in and also uh not having a contracted health broker uh was also a deficiency. But all in all uh the score required with no aid withholding is 32
and we did score 39.5 uh which may be increased. We have some questions about lead paint inspections that we have to address. So, I'm expecting a score of over 40, but if there's no objections or questions, we will be submitting this. And uh I just have a question that did we got I
won't say punished, but uh negative marks because we don't support the cannabis. That is correct. That's unusual that they would go that route to say you're getting negative points for not supporting that. I mean, it should be neutral at best. Yeah. Well, we get no points. you know, we would get points if we had enacted
these cannabis uh ordinances back when this, you know, okay, any question? I'll take the hit on that. That's okay. Is this year you want to hit what is the rationalization for that? So, how we've done in the past, this cannabis has been around already for years. How we've done in past with this
particular because I'm assuming this is not the first time where there might be more in depth this time. I don't know. Yeah, the state picks topics every year. Yeah, this year's topic seems to be cannabis. Last year it was uh lead paint inspections, which was a new law that was enacted back then. I think the year
before was trees, this whole tree, private trees uh permit that we had done. So, they picked the topics and we don't really say. Yeah, it's interesting, but all in all, it's it's like fiscal best practices and we're pretty compliant with most of it. So,
okay. Um uh who's doing it? Are you going to do this next? Yeah, I'll do that. So um the next one being the uh the DuPont Shamores uh settlement. Um I know at the last meeting there were a lot of questions about that and I know that a
lot of you have between that meeting and now been asked by residents about that settlement and what involvement uh there may be for that in the burrow and whether we should adopt a resolution. So I took a look at that settlement and that is that is one beefy settlement.
that is uh that is 108 pages long that settlement. Um and um I I think it warrants warrants being aware that that settlement is far more farreaching um than just Pompton Lakes that involves
several lawsuits that the state is involved in just in Jersey. Just Yeah, of course. Just in New Jersey. Um just in New Jersey. Um, but with respect to Pompton Lakes, just so there's clarity on on what the
settlement speaks to for Pompton Lakes, it uh it does identify the Pompton Lakes uh work site as one of four industrial sites that uh that they had four separate suits for and is being resolved. Um
the state uh collects natural damages uh natural resource damages and so the settlement calls for a payment of 75 million to the state for the natural resource damages at the Pompton Lakes
work site. Um, by comparison with the three other three other sites, um, for the Chambers site, they will get $100 million. For the Parland site, they will get $30 million. And for the Rapano site, $20 million. So, $75 million, as I
said, will be paid to the state for um for the damage that I popped in lakes. And then in addition to that in in exchange for the release from liability, Schumors um h will has agreed to continue the the verification of the
contamination the plume and cleanup through through completion. And to guarantee that cleanup, they will be required to set up a remediation funding source for that at an amount up to it hasn't been decided yet because they'll
have to do a site assessment, a final site assessment that'll be done 90 days after the settlement is signed and entered by the court. That amount that they'll have to set aside in an Evergreen uh revenue funding source is $350 million for the Pumpton Lake site.
And then in addition for the cleanup for the cleanup, didn't it have a floor of $30 million? Yeah, 31 31 million. But but it it it can be up to $350 million and it'll depend upon what that site assessment calls for. And then it also says that what and I
wanted to ask this question. It's pretty vague about how it says that it can be lowered over time. It will be it will be lowered over time and I and and that's not at all unusual for these things. What'll what'll happen is they'll have quarterly reporting to
the D on how the cleanup is going and the DE D approve that or not and based upon that and what they what the D expects the remaining cleanup to cost they will they will be um eligible to
have that number reduced but that's a D is is typically pretty strict on that sort of stuff. they're going to make sure because you know the thing is that even as they go forward with the cleanup the cost of the cleanup itself will continue because that's the nature of inflation right so um so that that that
number is eligible to go down and and it will go down over time but it's not going to go down very quickly that's that's my experience in looking at that number. Um in addition to that number there is uh a reserve fund uh that they
will that Shamores has agreed to fund at the amount of 475 million. The difference between the reserve fund and the uh the remediation funding sources. The reserve fund take is for all four
industrial sites. Um that's why you have that 475 million number. Um and the other difference is that the state in the event that Shamores is moving too slowly or not doing something, the state
after giving them notice um and if they if if they continue to not do it, um the state can tap into that fund and take that over and and do whatever needs doing there. So um the last thing I would I would mention is that you know
there was some talk of doing a resolution and a resolution may not be a bad idea but the most effective thing really for whether it's citizens or this council is this this settlement was published in the September 2 uh New
Jersey register that opens a 60-day comment period that comments can be submitted to the D that the D considers before submitting the the order to the judge. And so we may want to put together a comment and I'd be happy to
do that and you know we can adopt a resolution as well. But the really, you know, what's important is getting that comment to the D. Resolutions, you know, they're they're kind of fun to do, but they're not necessarily the most effective thing to do. So, um, doing two
things, um, and submitting a comment. And, you know, I I've been talking to some of you. I mean, you know, one of the comments that I think speaks to some of the what what what a lot of the residents are saying is that,
you know, you're getting these natural resource damages, this this amount. I mean, it's one thing for the funding source to be put in place to make sure the cleanup continues through completion, but the natural resource damages, these are funds that the state's not committing to to use for
Compton Lakes. That's this is this is, you know, the state considers, you know, groundwater and that their resource, right? That's that that is a state resource and this is a damage to their resource. So, this is a damage they're they're going to collect to do with whatever they want. And it just occurs
to me that the state could acknowledge the trauma done to this burrow by reporting on you know what happens to that $75 million. You know give an accounting for you know a a a you know not necessarily a weekly but you know
perhaps a quarterly or a bianual accounting to the bureau saying you know this is this is where those funds are being used. And if the burrow needs money, the burrow ought to ought to have an ability to, you know, something whether it's remediation or re
rehabilitation related. The bureau ought to be able to have priority in asking for those funds to be used here for for a project like that. And that would be, you know, that would be a comment I would submit to them. And and let's just say that that that 75
million goes throughout the state for whatever they want. Yeah. Stay up in this area. It could go to South Jersey. anywhere in the state. Um, and it could be a $75,000 million project if they decide to do that. Indeed, it could. But the 75 million was specific to our
site. I thought the 475 was not specific. That's correct. But the 75 million is is specific. Both the 475 number and that number whatever it turns out to be up to 350 million, that's for the cleanup. The
natural resource damage number is a number that that 75 million is the number they've agreed the the state has agreed to accept for the damage to the natural resources done at the Pmpton Lakes site. Okay. And that's damage that's that's money
that's not to be used for the cleanup. That's that's just the damage. Yeah. That's that's the penalty to be paid to the state and they can do whatever they want with that. So I I would just you know to me the comment would be um that an accounting include an explanation of
when and how the natural resources damages related to the municipality this municipalities and I think it should be for all all four of the municipalities that have been host to these these industrial sites. So I would even take it a step further and say it should be a mandatory
percentage that we get right off the top. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can you draft that? Yeah. I will put I will put something together and and have Michael circulate it. Does it make sense to put some type of a notice out to the public directing them to where they can submit public comment
with a closing date of 111? Um refer to the attorney. Yeah, we can do that on social media and our website letting them know that they have until 111 and you have a mailbox you can email directly. Yeah, you can. So that would be probably
the easiest and probably the best anybody who was part of this it was when Dupont used to come here and speak they had that same day window people would come they would write write their statements down and give it to Dup that's how they keep track of it and it means there are multiple so we're in agreement to to uh write
that support I want to write that I want I'm sorry I want to write that and I also want to put a resolution because a resolution says exactly that is official this is what this council and mayoring council needs to have in order to to to
do it. And is there a better place to send communications other than the governor's office because or the DP? Yeah, the D because the governor's office done to the I don't know if you saw that reply that Liz forward to us. So, Michael, you'll put something together for to public so the public
that wants to submit comment can submit comment by 11 also. Y have that that's right in the public notice. And the other push comes from our side is when we speak to our representatives from assembly all the way up is to bring up to them. Every time I talk to anybody, you know, I just spoke had a meeting with Po, our new uh
congresswoman. I brought this up. Everyone we talk to, they have to get the year of the governor's office and say, "Hey, look, why aren't we giving something to these communities who we've had to deal with this the last 40 years? Why are we not looking at that? It should be something we should be looking at." So, anytime you guys talk to anybody or or the public, by the way, um
uh we should bring that up. Yeah. All right. So, Mike, we'll work with that and you'll take care of that for us. Yeah, I will. Great. And Dave, just real quick, is is the federal or the federal is the federal government involved in the natural resource interest? It is not. So, this is strictly state. Strictly state. This is the D's action.
Okay. So, let's remember that that was the tricky part because it's a require site, but the FDA I mean the EPA still has their hands on it somehow even though they don't have a say on it. That's right. I'm not sure how that works in this whole thing. We want our
hands in this too. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. Uh Okay. Uh can I have a motion to open the meeting for public comment? Second. Uh Councilman Cruz. Who was second over here? Someone I heard something. I think Council Cruz was second. I was second. You were second. Who was
first? Oh, Council President Paulori. Uh all in favor against anyone from public life, please step up. all 120 Rome. Uh, as someone who uses the recycling center frequently because I never put anything on the curb, I got to tell you, it's pretty boring to go
over there now. No more traffic. Uh, no more backing up into each other and nobody trying to make you turn. Recycling center is so plain jane. It's I I know it sounds silly, but it's boring to go there now, which is the way it should be. You pull in, you dump your stuff, you leave, no traffic congestion,
everything is great. So, you guys did a really nice job putting the recycling. Really, really good job. Good. Uh, I saw another hand blocky, six Butler Street. So, Mr. Sarah, I asked you a yes no question and
you have no idea about that. Um, the question is can be directed to officer Rodriguez. He's sitting right here. You just asked him about the location of a speed sign on KFax Avenue. Ask him about the certification course
and whether he's taking it during work time. I have an update for the scatteragramgram I gave you with your cost for the special law enforcement labor attorney. For 7 months of 2025,
you've spent 52,97.99 for this special police labor lawyer. I'll add August and September as soon as those numbers are available. No wonder somebody wants to charge for public documents. That's a lot of tax money for
some unimpressive legal advice. You're really missing out by not attending the hearings. You'd be surprised, shocked maybe, by the things we've heard. testimony about
remembering things and therefore not needing to keep records or purging records. What is it with you and the standard documenting of public business?
not keeping records, trashing records, paying fees for public records, and continued silence about all of it. You have lost all credibility. Thank you. Anyone else from public like
to address? Please step up. Good evening, mayor, council. Alivangelista speaking as OEM coordinator at the request of Councilman Hen. Um, as far as the civic center is concerned, we've been trying for a number of years,
I have at least to get a generator in that space over there. And one of the problems is you can't put a generator, anything but natural gas within 10 ft of the building for obvious reasons with uh exhaust fumes. So that was problem number one. Number two is that the electrical service in there was quite
antiquated and um we would had to do a lot of work to try to get some kind of a generator there. So this gave us an opportunity now with the complete rewiring of the building. I'd spoken to uh Bur administrator about it as far as moving ahead and at least trying to get a footprint in there where we could add
a generator as Michael said make it ready. I forget the term he used but it was uh getting it ready for a generator. And we don't need an automatic start generator on the job. All right, that one might be one way that we can save money on transfer switch. If it's not a
significant amount of money, I would push for the automatic uh you know, switch over. But that's where we are with that. Again, in a shelter, we can't leave people unattended. We have to have a we're supposed to have a special police officer there or a police officer
while the place is open and an ENT in that building there. we have a lot of traffic by. We could even I would talk to Captain Rodriguez about possibly putting cameras in there. I don't know if we could in that space, you know, with signs letting people know it's under surveillance and then literally
let them in there to charge their their things or read a book while their heat is out and uh wouldn't need constant surveillance on that. So, that's where we hope to go with that project. I just want to make a comment because I saw something on Facebook about trees and as it applied to me like what somebody
questioning my authority when it comes to trees, right? I did reach out to have a tree branch removed a which was a imminent hazard in my uh in my estimation. I always work closely with shade tree. Councilman Hinton will tell
you lock step with him and now with Peter. Okay. If there's anything that comes up, I always go through Shade Tree. They may not have a meeting to vote on it. If it's an imminent hazard, we're going to take care of it as it needs to be right then and there. But I want the public to know that I'm not the
tree guy going around saying, "Cut that tree here. Cut this tree here." That's not my job. Okay. I just want to put a plug in for the flood board. You know, I'm not a regular member of it, but I attend all the meetings as OEM coordinator to be there as a resource for them. Uh we do need and and uh Mr.
Cwley knows this. We're going to sit down uh in a meeting next week. We have to talk about a drone survey over the whole river area. We have to talk about hiring a new contractor since the gentleman that we had retired. And we still need two more members from the general public to serve on that. So, if
there's anybody out there that sees this, please come forward. No training needed. you'll get on the job training and you'll really enjoy it because it really is something that committee has a tremendous impact on the quality of the life of our residents in this in this
burrow. So, please if anybody has any thoughts about it, come forward and uh come to our meeting. It's on the burrow calendar. The last thing I want to mention, and I don't know if Councilman uh Venom brought it up to you yet, but there was an advertisement that the county is um
has acquired property in Bloomingdale, the old horse farm. And there's a name for it, the space now, and I I can't recall it right now, but it was a horse farm. It's a 100 acre site, and there's about 12 acres that are developable, and it's right off of uh Union Avenue, just
past the entrance to the community college. Okay. the barn is still there. There's still a house on the property, but a lot of it is wet lands, you know, a lot of very wet area and so forth and so on. So, what this meeting was, and there was one in Bloomingdale tonight for the
residents. This one uh was here marked at Pontton Wanu in Ringwood and uh we had four representatives there from our uh from our uh committee, our historical commission, I should say. And uh we're very interested because as you know we're pushing for a museum. So one of
the things I brought up to the county administrator who was there, the deputy administrator and the engineer, county engineer and the project coordinator, whoever it was, is what I'd like to see is an upcount museum. We don't have anything up, right? Everything is down
in Wayne and Hawthorne and Patterson. And there's nothing north of Wayne, okay, that represents the tremendous amount of history that we have in this area. I brought up Pmpton Junction, okay, back when this town in the 1800s was Pompton Township and it involved the
municipalities of Ringwood, Wan, Pompton, Riverdale, and Bloomingdale. So, I said it would be nice if we could have a communal uh museum in that space, giving each town a portion of that building to
represent their municipality as far as the history of of the county. They could all have also have a space. We have the American Revolution. We have Federal Hill with the bunt camps. We have the intersection of two major train lines back in the day. Wanuk has a history of
the railroad up to and including have a turntable on railroad avenue which is why the name is the street is named that. The other thing was the Wanq reservoir which brought a tremendous amount of people to this area including my ancestors. All right. To uh to work on that Raymond dam which took about
six, seven years to build starting in 1921. So it's a treasure trove of history. Ringwood and I asked the people, there were other people there from those municipalities. Monu has no hard and fast museum as we don't. They use part they use part of their library
for it. Bloomingdale has a very little space. It's uh used to be a onecar garage and they've converted it. And as I said, they had a meeting over there tonight. So I don't know what the recommendations were, but the whole object of this meeting last night was a survey. And the reason I'm bringing it
up tonight is because our public should be aware of this. You should all be aware of this because they implored us last night that if we have any ideas or suggestions to meet with them. They're going to have future meetings. We're going to be involved. Laura Jennings uh Pit was there representing us as our chair. And as you know, she's a very
dynamic uh young lady that's always looking to do something uh you know, new and better. So, uh, we we felt very good coming out of the meeting because we had this sounding board and we were able to speak with them after the meeting one-on-one and you never know what can happen out of that because that would
give us space to present everything that we have in a storage facility um, you know, that the public can't see. So, uh, I leave you with that. If there's future meetings, I'll make sure that, uh, Mr. Carelli is aware of them and we can get it out to the public and meet with the
county on that. Thank you. Thank you. A question before. Please wait till I'm council in that when I'm talking then you can answer. Okay. Um any other uh people want to speak? Seeing no one can have a motion to close the public session. Uh Councilman Hinton is council.
Council Hinton. Council President Paulori. All in favor? Yes. I Paul thank you for the statements. I agree with you completely. You know we always a fight going in there. Now it's an easy in easy out. It's very simple. All I would ask for for us old people is better steps to get up to the uh uh top
of this. But yes, so Mr. Waki, I'm going to tell you again, I tell you this every time you come here, we can't talk about pending litigation. Pending litigation is going on. We cannot speak about that. That is from our attorneys. I will give our acting chief if he'd like to respond to it or not. It's up to you. Um Yeah, sure. Go ahead.
Yes. So I I am attending the certified public management program through Ruckers University which is a leadership and management course um that was approved by my predecessor. Um I'm in the class with a number of captains from
uh police captains from a number of police agencies around the state along with burough administrators along with fire captains and then uh it's a whole mesh of public employees and it's all about leadership employment. It's a
wonderful course. Um, I hope to send uh the future leaders in my department to the course um because it's it's probably one of the best courses that I've ever ever got the opportunity to to attend as as a leader and uh it's very common in
the police department to send leaders within the department to these leadership courses uh during work time. Um we do it all the time. Other agencies do it all the time. Uh all my colleagues in the class are doing the same thing. Okay, great. Thank you.
Thank you. Uh Al, uh first we'll start with yes, you know, we had long conversations about trying to bring that building up to par in the back. Um I think we're getting closer to that as you know and to the council. A real full-time generator that you know, the big type that we have could cost $500,000. These
are not cheap things. We're not going that route. We're going to try to go simpler. Um and Michael's going to look at that. He's going to work with our OEM director to kind of work that. But I think the goal is to try to get some type of power in there at some point. Uh I've already spoken to uh developer
about adding more electrical outlets and more things in there to charge and he didn't seem to have an issue with that. He had to talk to his department to make sure it was okay. So yes, we're working towards that. Um it's funny, you know, I was with the county today and they did bring up the meeting and they brought up, you know, them residents from Papa
Lakes that showed up. Yes. And I said, "Well, what were they there for?" and uh he he mentioned the museum and he you know he so it's in their head so that's good so you started the conversation we had a lot of other suggestions too but I I you know I I like the idea of a regional and if they could give us some space that's maybe a way we can work
this you know because for us right now budgets are tight this is a tough time right now we just don't have money to build a museum at this moment but if we could do a regional with the county helping us that's a whole different ballgame so I like that idea the flood advisory board of course very important board very involved lot going on there.
When I go to those meetings, they're quick, they're accurate, they know what they're talking about. I think if I'm correct, Lauren mentioned to me that she had somebody interested for one position, but I'm not 100% sure of that. Um, but yes, we need two new members, especially if you live in the south end, you know, where unfortunately to the
newer people, we haven't flooded in the south end, but you go back 10, 12 years ago, we were flooding every year. So, it's something to be on top of. We and this group is on top of it. So, it's it's a very important group. I know Bob, you had a question. Yeah, it it was for Al. Is is there other than attending in
person, is there any other way they're collecting information on this? Yes, there is a card. Um, they have QR codes. So, what I'll do, I'll get it to Michael and he can post it on the burrow. Yep. Um, perfect. Facebook page. All you have to do is do that, get the
survey, and submit it. Okay. Great. Thank you. Okay. Uh, our other u Don't push it. All right, suggestions for bird watching um passive recreation trails for hiking and um there was a
suggestion by Lauren where she saw in North Carolina they have a it's like a small track the parents can ride out while the kids are in the middle of the track play. It's a playground in the middle with a track around the outside so the parents can jog while they're watching their kids. Sounds good. They were very interested in pets.
I would not be jogging around my grandchildren. I'm just going to tell you that. Um, okay. Burn the floor. Anybody purge the floor? I I just have two things. I just want to bring up Lidle. Um, I I I use Lidle all the time. And when I went back in there,
it it to me it was very bright. It looked very clean. Uh, I think they have new people. I think they have new employees. I know they have a conditionally exempt conditional satisfactory. Well, the health department did go back time. Yes, they did go back and they're not
perfect. Yeah, they're not satisfactory yet, but um it it looks like they're really making an effort to to bring that store. That store is very important to this town. It is okay. I mean, I'm very disappointed that they can't figure that out. The management is not
100% cooperative. They should be. It's uh but it's very important to the town because if we lose that store, I don't know. It took us years to get this store in. So, I I I I don't have I you know, the the meat was fresh, the vegetables
look good. I was surprised to find out that they fell back already, but um I keep pressing that, you know, just, you know, keep using the store as best you can and and I and I think the more they that people use it, I think hopefully and and let's remember, it's not just our town using it. Other people coming
in from other towns, people from all over. So, yes, they got to fix their issues and the health department is on top of that. I'm glad you brought it up. They are they are monitoring them. They have not had any issues this last week where they were closed or fined or any of that stuff, but they told them they need to work on some things. That's Yes. And I want to thank our health department. Bobby, please make that
comment to the health department because they've done a great job. And then the other thing I just wanted to make uh aware, our our Rotary Club in Pmpton Lakes, they're looking for donations for a lightning detection system uh for the Joe Grill Willow Field area.
No, no, it reaches We have one already. Yeah, we have one. And it reaches the entire town, even into Riverdale. Yeah. Well, they they asked they they were looking for donations. No, it's brand new. We have The school put it in. The school put it in. Yeah. Yeah. But this is for Joe Gro. No, but Yeah, but it encompasses.
So, they need $6,000 more or $3,000 more? That is news. That is news to me. I could find out. I'll send you the letter. Send me the letter so I can find out. But it's up. It works cuz I actually have the app on my phone. Has anyone from Rotary actually reached out to anyone in the town? I've seen it already for soccer and I've
seen it for others. So I don't think they I think there was conversation I had with uh Dr. Amaroso about wanting into partners with him for all the fields and then we said we can't really afford it and I think they went ahead anyway that lightning systems hurt forever. It's called PL strike.
PL strike and you load it and it'll give you the current status. I can address that issue anyway real quick. I sit on the rotary as well. My member Paul is also the Rotary can apply for a grant. They are short one horn system. Okay. The
whole system is complete, but it doesn't cover Joe Wilfield complex. They have a horn siren at George Field at Hersfield, which I can hear from my house, and there's one at the Riverdale Field because we play a lot of games there, our high school. And uh there was
one left, which was the one above field. Uh, Peter Lewit, so you all know, city member on the Rotary is going to apply for a grant $3,500. If we can make up the other difference, it's $6,000 for that additional um for
the additional warrant. Now, that's something we'll have to talk about. Talk about open space. I don't know if open space monies can be used. We're going to talk about device. So, that'll be discussed, but okay. Well, we'll get more information on it probably. Yeah, because my understanding I mean I
don't know what the the radius is, but I I thought it was up to four miles or no. Well, I mean I I I that was that'll be the only thing. Get more information on that. I'll get more information. But yeah, it it should be covering up to four miles.
I'm kind of surprised that and we're three miles square down. Yeah. No, no. And all of them do that cuz I, you know, sports, anybody who's coached or whatever, we've had those lightning detection systems and they got off and they they're far. I mean, they detect lightning for miles away.
I'd like to confirm that. So, if they couldn't hear it, well, that may be something to increase the decibel sound for maybe the system, how it alarms the town. Okay, maybe I could go, but it covers it's supposed to four miles. It should be covering that. Okay, I don't want to continue with the
information. I'll get more information on it. Um, oh, any other privilege. Happy birthday to Councilman H. You're still young. 50 is looking good on you, man. I just want to repeat that the fire department's open house is from 6:00 to
9:00 on October 13th, fire prevention week. If you have young children, it's a great event. They show up, they go through the smokehouse, they get some things. It's a nice event. So, if you have something looking something to do, that's there. I just wanted to mention, I don't know if it was mentioned, the townwide garage sale was a success. We had two beautiful days. Yes. Y
and uh I was over on Lincoln AB making a few purchases and uh to Al Evangelista's comments about uh the center over in Union Avenue. Bird watching two bald eagles flying beautifully over
Lincoln Avenue over by I see by the lake sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it was real good and just to mention we are in the white tailed deer mating season. So, warn the public to keep an eye out for deer just running across the road.
Thank you. Okay. Motion to return into close session. Motion. Second. Councilman Bennon, Councilman Cruz. All in favor? I against. Thank you everyone. Have a good night everyone. Okay. Council President Paulori, Councilman Quinn. Was that Quinn?
Yes. All in favor? I against. All right. All right, Liz, we're going to do 25 340, 25 341, and 25 342. Oh, I'm sorry. We already And we're going to table 25 343. Correct. Correct. So, you want me to read them? Yeah, we
got to ratifying the sidebar for the productive negotiations agreeing between the borrow of concent lanes and the international road teams local for HRA services for calendar year 2026.
You can read all three. Okay. 341 ratifying the sidebar agreement to the collective negotiations agreement between the Burough Compton Lakes and the International Brother of Teamsters local 11 clerical for H services for
calendar plan 2026 and ratifying the sidebar agreement to the collective negotiations between the Burough of Compton Lakes and the Pumpton Lakes PBA local 161 for HR ser H services.
Have a motion for 25340, 25341, and 25342. Motion second. Councilman Vennon, Councilman Cruz. All in favor? I against. And we are just for the public. Uh we're tableabling 25343. Motion to motion. Oh, I'm sorry. In close session, we
discussed uh negotiation. Um a motion to motion. Second. Who was that? Council President Paul. Councilman Cruz. All in favor? Hi.