Please turn off all cell phones. The agenda of the Pumpkin Lake Zoning Board of Adjustments, August 26, 2025. The following is the agenda of the regular meeting of the Pumpkin Lake Zoning Board of Adjustments. The meeting is to be held in the municipal building, 25
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for all the voices. All the office, we have none. Uh, roll call, please. Okay. Mr. Hunt. Yes. Mr. Bait here. Miss Curran here. Miss uh Mr. Cross here.
Miss Bernstein Miss I'm sorry. Miss Berntock will be absent. Mr. Rowan here. Mr. B here. Mr. Fagula here. Mr. Devonte here. Mr. Klaus here.
Okay. Um Councilman Bobby. And there will be no engineers or planners tonight from CERS. Okay, we're good to go. Okay. Uh minutes we have none. Um so we have no roll call for the minutes.
Uh approval of bills. We have Collier's engineering and design services for 49833 and see Mariti. Maraziti Legal Services $1,924.
Um, can I get a motion to accept uh those bills? Second. Current. And who was the second? Bulla. Got it. Can I get a roll call, please?
We're just all voted. Sorry. Oh, okay. Usually we Okay. Roll call. All in favor? Yes. I posted none. Okay. Correspondence we have none applications we have none resolution
BOA24-09 227 Hamburg turnpike everyone had an opportunity to read your the resolution I had like three typos just want to bring there's nothing important but um in paragraph K rather than application
it's the applicant that was done three times um paragraph N said he testified that they will comply and change it to applicant will comply and paragraph V life coach is two words not one word
really nons substantive but with those changes okay can I get a motion to accept the resolution with the changes say amend brewer so move herin second cake.
Yeah. Roll call. [Applause] Okay. Uh, Mr. Hunt. Yes. Mr. V. Yes. Miss. Currin. Yes. Mr. Cos.
Yes. Mr. Rowan. Yes. Mr. B. Yes. Mr. Fagula. Yes. I think that's all I need, right? Sorry. new unfinished business. Um, Mike Cos, you have anything on open space?
Uh, yeah, a couple things. Okay. They're uh half the people are missing. Um, so they didn't It was a quick meeting. Um, let's see. Karen's project for the park is finally out to
bid, right, Bob? Yes. and and uh the plans are okay and everything is finalized and now it's just out to bid. So we got a nice new building down there. Well, refurbished.
Um the bridge that's being put in. Excuse me. Does everybody know what that means by that building down at uh Hersfield that's going on? Yep. The garage. The garage. Okay. Just wanted to be clear. Yeah. The uh but new bathrooms and everything, right?
Yeah, bathrooms. I don't know the scope of it, but it has to be uh ADA compliant and everything now. So, okay. And the bridge that's going in is now in the late fall. Uh it was supposed to go in before
school started, but now it's in the late fall. Bridge by Hersville. And uh the bridge by Hersh. Yeah. The new one going in and now it's put off until after the football season's over so people can park. I asked about the youngsters that live
on Garden Road in the south end of Ringwood A because I grew up on Garden Road. Cut through Hersville. I would go to Lincoln school. Yeah. My kids always cut through Hershey. And I was promptly told that nobody walked to school anymore. My time changed. I still see kids on bikes riding to her
school. So I guess they won't be when the bridge is gone, right? Sheesh. Let's see. Um, another business is the Lakeside Park, the gazebo. They're still deciding on the roof, right? Whether to put Yes. Yes. Either
a steel roof. Steel roof or shingles? I don't know. Specific. I have to find out. So, it obviously won't be done for day. Uh, yeah. I don't see that. Uh, the new guard rail going along the
lake. That's not until next year. And uh that was really about it. Was there any mention of like a new pickle ball courts or anything like that? Um there is definitely going to hit us on the pickle
ball court. All right. Just cuz Yeah, I was down with Randy and measuring out different spaces in Hzfield for potential of new pickle ball courts down there over the existing tennis or something. No, next to. So if you're facing the tennis courts to the left where there's that tree line.
Yeah. To see if there's space in there to do it possibly. Okay. He's looking at two of them. So I was looking to Mike Shakatano. So I don't know. Yes. Mike Shakatano brought that up. Yeah. So Randy was down there and then I ended up down there. Yeah. They were supposed to go down and measure. Yeah. They No, Randy did all the
measurements. He brought the tape tape down and stuff like that. It's just one tree would have to come out. That type of thing. Supposedly the pickle ball is more popular than tennis now, but they can't do anything with the tennis courts because the school plays there. So that has to tennis team.
Yep. High school boys and girls. He was saying one coach didn't care and the other coach cares. Yeah. The girls play in the fall and the boys play in the spring, I believe. Yeah. And that was about it. Um there's it's in the beginning stage that
piece of property over on Broad Street they're looking at. I don't know if that's where that old house used to be. Oh no, dude. I don't have any. That's I think that's in the very beginning. So there was some BL u abandoned property.
Not abandoned. It's kind of overgrown and but somebody's paying taxes on it. I was thinking about doing that for something, but that's a ways down the road. And that was about it. It was uh like I said, it was quick meeting cuz half the people weren't there.
Okay. Thanks, Mike. Appreciate the report. Um let's see here. Um one more thing. Okay. And um we got the contract to start clearing trees down at Willow Field.
Yes. Yes. that's that's been approved. Um I think they're working out the logistics. So the company that's doing the planning, they're going to be responsible for their care after the project is completed for X number of years. That's the end of those years. Now we need to determine what the hope
forward plan is going to be. If we're going to assume the work through DPW or we're going to continue to pay the additional services to continue the care. You got to remember these are very little. These are by no means, you know, these are very small and they're going to be taken care of. So, but everything's been approved.
So, I'm sure it'll be nice and tasty for all the deer out there. Oh, I'm sure. I am sure. But supposedly they're going to have some type of coverage around early on obviously to help out with that. And um but I'm excited that there's some progress at
least moving forward. So, all good things. And that's still out to bid also, right? The little Yeah, it's only out to bid. there was an issue with the original uh contractor and then you know you're going to start over you got to rebid again accept the applications and then obviously go with
the lowest one um and this company can do obviously I think so it's good you know we don't want to drag this out too long we do have monies we got to use that's it thanks Mike appreciate that um uh just one note uh pumpkin day is
Sunday. Uh hope everybody gets out and enjoys that. It's a great event. The rec department and town works very hard and very long. Mr. Big is on that committee. Uh and uh it's a great day. Is Mr. Big going to be in the dunk tank? I will not be in the dunk tank this
year. It's too much running around with vendors and you know campaign stuff and all that. But we are sold out completely. This is the first year we had a waiting list and uh Burough Hall today is going to return checks. So we created about 20 additional spots.
Um worked with AJ Rodriguez who's in charge of the police department and fire department and went out and we were able to kind of configure things. So half of Jefferson Bridge will have vendors, half of like going across the bridge and part of um parent same thing uh just to get
extra vendors in there. But we were like yeah we actually had to deny people this year. I just was on the phone with somebody, so it should be a really good event. It's the 20th year. Um, longer fireworks this year, too. So, it's like a half hour display, but yeah, I think we're up to 100 was 148 vendors, 219
spots, and 38 food vendors. Awesome. So, should be a good event. Looking forward to it. Um, oh, wait, real quick. And we do have athletic events going on. Oh, Councilman Cruz is good. Obviously,
fishing obviously isn't going to do the fishing, but I just wanted to point it out. So, well, you know what it is. Well, we still do it every Saturday. Mhm. So, um I know all the sporting events uh that we used to do, I think, are pretty much all going to be there. It's on the website, correct? Yeah. So, soccer in the morning,
bringing the um uh whatchamacallit um the street team in, uh Red Bull street team, and then we'll have a home run derby. We'll have the basketball shootout. Um we'll have professional wrestling on the turf as well, doing three different shows. I know there's bands all playing during
the day all throughout the areas. Um I know the uh Elks is also open for a cooling center. I believe they're going to have a band, too. They're going to have a band. Uh they're going to be used as a cooling center. So if it gets a little warm and people get overheated, I know that they're going to
be open. And the reason why we know that was because of the senior picnic uh or lunchon, I should say. They mentioned it that day. So uh so we can turn there. Okay. Um anything else? Anybody? Nope. Okay. Uh
therefore I'm going to open it up to the public and anybody in the public like to come forward and talk to and there's no one there. So uh make a motion uh to close that session. Um
second. Can I get a motion for a journ? Second. All in favor? I opposed everyone. Have a great night. Enjoy.
Thank you for your time. Enjoy the attendance. Thank you. Your information is you doing anything for your birthday stuff? Stop.