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Part 1 (Video ID: CPWm6Bx_4xw):
- 00:00:45: Meeting Call to Order, Roll Call, and Pledge
- 00:04:00: Public Comment: Kimberly Larissy - Pickleball Court Noise
- 00:10:35: Public Comment: Brendan Larissy - Pickleball Court Concerns
- 00:17:13: Council Discussion: Addressing Pickleball Court Issues
- 00:19:09: Closing Public Comment, Consent Resolutions, Block Parties
- 00:20:33: Committee/Liaison Reports: Library, Recreation, Farmers Market
- 00:23:11: Emergency Services Complex, Veterans, Health Updates
- 00:24:48: Building, Planning, Zoning, and Public Works Updates
- 00:27:20: Ramsey First Responders, Pool, New Resident Mixer
- 00:28:54: Health, Education, Social Services and Environmental Update
- 00:31:19: Mayor's Update: Ramfest and Volunteer Recognition
- 00:32:23: Burough Administrator's Report: Resolutions Discussion
- 00:37:19: Adjournment: Final Questions and Motion to Adjourn


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L folks. Okay, let's do it. You got that, please? I think so. The red is better. Okay. Welcome to the Burough of Ramsey Marin Council work session Wednesday, May 13, 2026.

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This meeting is also being conducted telephonically. Dial in number 425436 6365, access code 213563. This meeting may also be viewed on the Ramsay YouTube channel. Miss Bendy, may I please have a roll

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call? Mayor Dylan >> here. >> Councilwoman Cusk >> here. >> Councilman Gerson >> here. >> Councilman Gutwer >> here. >> Councilman Kilman is not here. Councilman Papo >> here. >> And Councilwoman Poppy is not here.

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>> Uh may we please stand, ladies, gentlemen. And if you have a hat on, no one has a hat on. Thank you. I would ask um Councilman Gerson to lead us in the pledge of the allegiance. Please to the flag of the United States of

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America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law was enacted to ensure the right of all

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citizens to have advanced notice of and to attend all meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting the public is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provisions of this act, notice of this meeting of the mayor and council was published in the Bergen record and the suburban news on

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Wednesday, January 15, 2026 and is posted on our legal notices page at www.rrams. Ramsey, New Jersey. Ramseyj.com. Approval of minutes. May I please have a a motion to approve the minutes? >> Yes, Council President Cusk. I'd like to

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make a motion to approve the minutes. >> I'll second that. >> 4226 meeting. >> Thank you. And >> I'll second that. >> Thank you very much. Any comments to the minutes, please? >> Not hearing any. Miss Bendy and roll call, please. >> Councilwoman Cusk. >> Yes. Councilman Gerson,

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>> yes. >> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Pablo, >> yes. >> Communications, one communication on our agenda tonight. >> Uh, yeah, Council President Kendrick, I move that we accept and file the communications as listed on tonight's

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agenda. >> Thank you very much. And I'll second. Any comments to the communications? >> Thank you, Miss Ben. Roll call, please. >> Councilwoman Cusk. >> Yes. Councilman Gerson, >> yes. >> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Papo,

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>> yes. >> Thank you very much. >> The public comment portion of our meeting. >> Anyone wishing to address the governing body, please give your name spelling the last name and address, please speak in an audible tone and address your comments to the chair. There will be a

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fiveinut time limit per speaker unless reduced because of the volume of business on the agenda. Please note public comment is your time. Out of respect and fairness to all, there will be no interruptions or questions answered during your time. No time shall

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be seated to anyone else and no time shall be saved for later use. Any responses may be given during the governing body's comments later in the meeting or as directed by the chair. The burough clerk is the official timekeeper. Hi there. My name is Kimberly Larissy.

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Um, I live at 143 Momar Drive in Ramsey. Um, I just want to apologize in advance. I might get a little emotional. Um, so my name is Kimberly. As I said, I um I have a three-year-old who's at home. I'm four months pregnant right now. Um, and

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I teach kindergarten in Wayne. Um, and I've been speaking with Councilman Cusk um over a matter that has um is really breaking me down. Um, we live right behind the pickle ball courts and we've

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been speaking with the council about the troubles that we've been having there. Um, I know my husband came to a council meeting um, in the past when the ordinance was first initiated and spoke about the science behind why it just

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doesn't work to be in a residential community having pickle ball courts that close to someone's home. Um, but I'm here tonight to talk about the emotional toll um, that it's taking on our family. Um, so first I, you know, it's it's one

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thing to hear pickle balls being hit through every single room of your home, even with the windows closed and the sound machines on. Um, putting your son to sleep when you're hearing the pickle balls. Um, not being able to go have family dinners in your backyard until

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the ordinance hours are over, even though those ordinance hours are not followed. um not being able to let my son play in the backyard um when the pickle balls are being played because of the violent cursing that's taking place

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um and the screaming. Um him not being able to invite his friends over because if we invite them and they want to play in the backyard and there's residents that are playing pickle ball and cursing that I don't want them to be exposed to

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that. Um but this is really just um emotionally taking me down. Um it takes time away from my family. Um even just this afternoon um I'll just give an example of what happened. Um and Councilwoman CQ knows um my son isn't

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feeling well. I put him down for a nap. He took a really was taking a really long nap. I had the windows open and a group of pickle ballers showed up and they start cursing and screaming at the top of their lungs. Um, you know, they were excited, right? It comes out when

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you're playing pickle ball. I get it. So, I closed the windows. Um, you could still hear it through the house and he woke up and I decided to take a walk with him just cuz he wanted me just to get some fresh air. Um, I I reached out to Councilman Cusk and I said, you know,

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can I just go over and just say something nicely to them and just ask them, please, can you just not do that? And so I went over. I said, excuse me, please. Um, my 3-year-old son is sleeping. You know, I'm just asking with all my heart that you just try to control your language and your volume

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when you're playing here on these courts. They started laughing at me behind the paddles. Um, and then they I walked away and they went right back to cursing and I walked over with my son and I don't know if they did it on purpose, but I think one of them started

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purposely beeping their emergency car horn cuz I s they saw it was like right in the parking lot there. Um, I called Councilman Cusk crying cuz it really shook me. Um, I was really nice and this is the third time that this has happened to me that I've been spoken to that way

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after being really nice. I teach kindergarten. I don't talk that way. Um, and so that was me trying to ask the the town to the people that are breaking the ordinance, the screaming, the cursing for help. There's been times when people have been playing outside of the

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ordinance hours that I've asked and the same thing has happened. Um, I'm just asking tonight to help our family. Um, and I know Councilwoman Cusk has been so supportive these past couple

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months. I think last Sunday alone, I think there were five times we texted her to let her know that people were playing outside of ordinance hours. Um, and that was just one Sunday. It's it happens every single almost every single night. Um, and I know a petition was

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signed last year to keep the courts open and to revoke the ordinance and all that, but I I could bet that most of the people that are on that petition are not the ones breaking these ordinance violation or violating the ordinance.

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And I really feel like something needs to change. I also spoke with someone over the summer last year um on the phone who's not on the council um and we he discussed that someone was coming to

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do a report of the the if it made sense for pickle ball courts to be this close to someone's home and that I would get a a copy a review of it. We would get to look at it. Um sorry. Okay. I did. So I was I was promised that we

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would get to look at that that they would move the courts to the other side. I waited all summer. I kept like these I wouldn't see people playing. I'm like, "Oh, maybe they move them." The courts never moved to the other side. I asked for locks. I I and I know that that

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might be something that's happening, but that never happened. I asked that maybe another windcreen can be put up so I don't have to see half-dressed people playing on the court all the time from my window. Nothing has happened. There are trees. We are thankful for the

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trees, but it will take 10 years, 15 years for those trees to do anything to help our home. We love this town. We love this community. Our son is now part of it. And um I just thank you for anything that you could do to help our family. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mrs. Larry. >> My name is Brendan Larry. L A R A C Y. I live at 143 Milar Drive. I am Kimberly's husband. And just to to go off of that as well, um my wife and I were both division one

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athletes. Um I'm also a psychotherapist. Um, and I treat people, you know, like that are struggling. So, I'm I'm very well aware of the benefits of pickle ball. I don't think there's probably anyone in this town that knows the benefits of pickle ball more than I do.

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Um, I I am all for pickle ball. I think it's one of the healthiest things that people could be doing nowadays. Um, additionally, like I I I was a Franciscan monk for 10 years. I've lived in the South Bronx in Harlem, the west

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side of Newark, Patterson. I worked with the homeless. I've had people shot on my front doorstep. I'm no stranger to environmental stress. Like, I'm I'm used to this. I can handle it. Pickle ball is

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a completely different experience. Just a few more recent notes. Scientifically, the the expert community, the APA, the American Planning Association, just published a paper a few months ago giving guidelines on pickle ball with zoning. They said

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that pickle ball is simply not compatible because it cannot be adequately mitigated within 350 ft of homes. Paddlette is a paddle pickle ball um paddle company. They they're manufactured pickle balls. They wrote an

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article on this issue just kind of like highlighting the benefits and the the they said there's a as a compromise court should be placed at least 500 ft away from residences. I reached out to Dick Van Suk who is a consulting pickle ball consultant. He's

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done 200 analyses. He's been in the New York Times. Um he did a preliminary analysis of the courts. He gave me the the report, but he says that court when courts are within 100 ft, it is nearly impossible without prohibitively expensive measures to limit the

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impulsive sound of pickle ball. And he said that our courts behind our house are 75 ft from the loudest spot to our home. Carl Schmidz, who is the CTO of Pickleball USA, he says that if placed

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within 250 ft of residential areas, it is critical that noise mitigation policies, materials, and required quiet category equipment be consistently enforcable. There's been a town in California just

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recently, last year, they p they paid hund $1.5 million to build brand new courts. Within a couple of months, they closed them down completely. There's been over 200 litigation lawsuits across the country just in the past two years. I bring that up just

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because there's a there's a reason why these things are happening. It is not just an annoyance. It is like it's harmful. It is really, really harmful. And it's it sounds ridiculous because it's pickle ball, but it is harmful. And as someone who is a a trauma therapist, I know what

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it does on the nervous system. It it intrudes every home in my in every room in my home. I can hear it through noiseancelling headphones in my house. There's no it's there's no escaping it. It's like it's literally like torture. I

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feel I legitimately feel like I'm breaking. I'm I'm so concerned for my family, for my son. Bringing in a new a new baby. There's nowhere that you can't sleep in some of the bedrooms. It's that loud. I'm really concerned for my family. I

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don't know what to do. I don't know if I'm going to have to move if something if something doesn't get done, whether it be I I I just don't know. I'm at a loss. I'm requesting like that that sound analysis that was allegedly supposed to

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be done. We were told that it was going to be done by August 15th last summer. I would like that to be like made public so that I can see that. I'm asking for transparency with that. I think that's that's reasonable. And I really want to know what the

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town's intention is for these courts. Are they going to stay open? I want to know what the plan is for tomorrow. It is that I feel that desperate. You know, within the within the revised ordinance that was passed last year,

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there was a good neighbor provisions, right, that was excluding excessive noise, offensive behavior, and loud music. by n like I think what I've just highlighted is that not only is pickle ball just in in essence at this level

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it's not just excessive noise it's actually harmful and toxic noise I don't know how to how you can reconcile that that there's an ordinance for excessive noise and then in essence pickup ball itself is beyond excessive

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and there's literally been zero enforcement of the ordinance that was passed last year zero people like my wife said every day people are playing past hours people cursing swearing it doesn't like I've asked there's been nothing done they've looked in oh we can't do that that's too

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expensive we don't know how to do that like there's been nothing done and to me that's like it's it just throws me off I feel irate I feel like rage because of that I feel

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sadness I feel it's like it's maddening and I'm asking I I love pickle ball. I think it's great, but it's really harmful to my me and my family and I'm desperately concerned about it. It sounds ridiculous, but it's

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all of these things are like it's legitimate. I'm not I'm not making this up. I don't complain. I can handle noise, but this is this is utterly otherworldly. Thank you.

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>> Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Larissy. Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Laracy. >> Um, any comments from Mr. Boz? Do you have a timeline, please, for the physical locks and restraints and other

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items that we had discussed for the course? >> I know they're they got the equipment. I will check on the timing and let you know. Mr. Larry, let me think about some ways we can enforce the ordinances better.

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You know, I know Mr. Vose said we got the equipment in. So, for the U blocking gates, we'll push to get that installed. Um, and I might even consider doing a rave alert on this just to let people know, you know, you got to be a good neighbor. You got to be respectful and

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follow the ordinance. You know, it's it's true. Got to be a good neighbor. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. And I I spoke to Chief Paresi this afternoon um after um I got your call, Mr. Larry, and he asked me to follow up with him tomorrow.

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So, Madame Mayor, maybe this is a conversation that you and I can take together with chief because blocks go in place. This is good. And then if people are violating the ordinance, then maybe instead of a verbal warning, maybe it it

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goes to a different a different level of of um enforcement, please. >> Okay. Thank you. Anyone else in the chambers for public comment?

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Anyone on the telephone for public comment? Second call for those on the phone. Third and final call for public comment for anyone on the telephone. Not hearing any. I will close public comment for

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tonight. the advertised public hearing for final considerate consideration of ordinances. We have none for appointments. There are none consent resolutions, please. >> Uh thank you, council president. Uh be

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it resolved that resolutions 102 2026 through and including 115 2026 having been considered by the governing body of the B of Ramsey B and are hereby passed and approved. There are no special permit requests this evening. Uh for block party requests, there are two.

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Elbert Court is requesting permission to hold a block party on June 13th, 2026 from 1:30 to 10 p.m. And North Street is requesting permission to hold the block party on August 8th, 2026 from 3 to 11:00 p.m. >> I'll second that.

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>> Thank you very much. May I please have a roll call, Miss Bending? >> Councilwoman Cusk. >> Yes. >> Councilman Gerson, >> yes. >> Councilman Gweter, >> yes. Councilman Pompo. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Committee and liaison reports, finance and administration.

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Councilman Michael Gutwer. Mike, just give me one second to get the phone down to you. >> Do we take the cord out of >> Yes. >> Thank you. I guess you kind of have to be down. Uh thank you council president. Uh my

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report for this evening for the library board friends of the Ramsey Library spring news book and Julie's fair took place in April. Uh the friends of the Ramsey Library sponsored the library museum pass program Sunday afternoon concert series and summer reading

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program uh from the proceeds of this sale. The library is putting out a townwide mailing with the theme dig into summer to promote the dinosaur theme as part of their summer reading program. Library also plans to support the town efforts and promote events for the

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upcoming 250th celebration uh with also with a theme concert to be held on July 5th. The library ran a glowinthe-dark egg hunt on May 1st with 183 people in attendance at this very wellreceived and popular event. Uh the music dingo event

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continues to be very popular run by director Leam with 56 people in attendance in April. This will be incorporated into an upcoming after hours fundraiser. There was also a very popular unicorn day held recently with 61 children in attendance and residents

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can check the library websites for spring programming. The recreation commission registration for spring sports available on the Ramsey Recreation website where there are links for the various sports. Uh there should also be registration for fall sports available. If not now, then shortly. Uh

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summer day camp at Fins Park. Registration for campers unemployment is open for enrollment. Camp will run from June 22nd to July 24th and close on July 3rd. Spring men's and women's adult softball leagues. Registration and play began in April. Ram Ramsey Farmers

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Market. The market is now open from 9:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. through November. December the hours will change uh to 10 to from 10 to 1. On May 3rd, the Ramsey Area Garden Club plant sale at Masonic Lodge took place that was sponsored by the Ramsey Women's Club. Uh and June 7th

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upcoming the Strawberry Festival, also sponsored by the Women's Club, a Ramsey will be held at the farmers market. That concludes my report for this evening. >> Thank you very much, Councilman Gutw. Thank you very much. You guys are one step ahead. Thank you. I'll um cover

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Councilman Kilman's report and uh Miss Bendy and we'll cover Councilwoman Prey's. So um Councilman Kilman, regarding our new emergency services complex in February, Neta Architects and the Ramsey Emergency Services Building Committee presented an overview of the project's design. At this time, the

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design is nearing completion. The members of the burough's emergency services building committee have worked hard to develop a state-of-the-art complex while keeping the costs within realistic budget parameters. Once completed, reviewed, and approved by the mayor and council, we expect to go out to bid sometime this summer. We will

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also showcase the new emergency services building drawings at a future Marin Council meeting. Next from VFW Post 12148, our Ramsey veterans are currently selling poppies throughout this month to

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raise funds in support of veterans, active duty service members, and their families. You'll find them at various store locations throughout Ramsay. This meaningful tradition comes from the poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, written during World War I. The poem

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describes poppies growing on battlefields where soldiers had fallen and the flower became a lasting symbol of remembrance and sacrifice. Please take a moment to show your veterans and our veterans your support whenever you can. And lastly, the board of health

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meets tomorrow and if anything of note arises, council kilman will report upon it at the next mayor and council meeting. Thank you. Building planning and zoning. Mr. Gone. Council member Gone.

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>> Thank you, Council Ch. Um, for the last design review board, there was one sign application which was approved and the zoning board is scheduled for May 20th of this week, which is next week. So,

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that's all we have to report. >> Thank you very much, Council Member Sunny. Buildings planning and zoning. Um, I'm sorry. Utilities, buildings, and grounds. It was Councilwoman Cusk. That's me. So, um, just a few comments. On May 1st, I attended the Ramfest as a

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representative for our Ramsey is for everyone. It was a wonderful event and congratulations to Shauna and the entire Ramsey Municipal Alliance for a great time. And later that evening, I attended the Reich Dance Party. It was a great way to start the month. I also had the pleasure of attending the Ramsey Fire

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Department installation dinner. Thank you to all of our volunteers. This report will be an update regarding our planning board, shade tree commission and board of public works. The Ramsey planning board next meeting is June 2nd as the May 19th meeting has been cancelled. At the May 5th meeting, there

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were five sight clean waiver site plan waiverss which were approved and there was one resolution for the Okonite company. The public hearing on agenda was carried to the June 2nd meeting. Ramsey has a no knock registry that allows residents to opt out of

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door-to-door commercial solicitation. Enroll by visiting the burough website and complete the online application search no knock list. Our shade tree commission the next meeting is confirmed to be the 21st of May. Ramsey has been a tree city for 31 years. On April 24th,

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together with the volunteer members of the commission and Mayor Dylan, we honored Arbor Day with a new planting donated by Colombia Bank. This new tree is at the corner of Main Street and North Central. The Board of Public Works last met on the 20th of April. The next

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meeting is 18th May. The BPW continues planning and implementation measures to comply with NJD's lead service line replacement mandate, requiring all lead service lines in the water system to be replaced by 2031. The bureau will cover

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the cost of replacing the portion of the water service lines it owns, while property owners are responsible for the portion they own. Please go to the bureau's website for more information. public and governmental relations. I'm going to ask Meredith to read the

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council councilwoman Poppy's comments. Come to another one. >> Thank you. You're welcome. Councilwoman Poppy had the pleasure of attending the Ramsay Rescue and Ramsay Fire Department installation dinners. Um, we often say our volunteers are the

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lifeblood of our community. Nowhere is that more true than with our first responders. It is an honor to be in attendance when their personal accompl accomplishments are being acknowledged. Ramsey Stigmafree also held their event Ramfest which was a success to be proud

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of. Thank you for your continuous efforts to bring the community together to break the stigma around mental health. The pool commission is preparing for opening day on May 23rd. They will meet at the pool on Wednesday, May 20th for their monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m.

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The pool will be open only on weekends until uh June 20th. The Ramsey New Resident Mixer will be held on June 5th at the municipal pool from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. All residents who have moved to or within Ramsey since 2024 are

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welcome to attend. Registration is required. >> Thank you, Miss Benny. Health, Education, and Social Services. Councilman Glenn Popo. Thank you. Might have to change this around. We go forward.

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>> It usually works really well. Yeah, >> a little bit. >> Thank you, Council President Cusk. Um, I'll start with the board of ed. They met on 428 and Dr. Mattio went through the updates of the board of ed budgets uh in detail. He mentioned the other

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townships that have fallen into the same type of uh healthc care impact. So, it was very very well done. Uh he then went on to speak about a lot of the changes that they've done at all the schools and the impacts that they've made to correct the budget. Uh they also recognized the

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winter sports athletes and there was a lot of athletes in that room um that night. So they all had awards going on and it was it was really good to see. Uh Ramsey Municipal Alliance and Stigmafree had a successful Ramfest on May 1st.

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Unfortunately, I was not able to attend. I had to make a choice between my daughter's wedding or going to the Ramfest. >> And I picked my daughter's wedding. So I had to just make that choice. But I heard it was extremely successful which is great. Uh and congratulations and you

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know job well done to the RMA committee members and crew. Uh environmental committee uh we met last night. Uh thank you to the DPW for putting in the uh cross signs along the bike path. They are all in now. Um a couple of other

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things will probably be teetered with just to fix up some of the things for that but it looks great. Um, I should receive the cost estimate for the eight dog waste u partitions or stations as we call it for the bike path in Finch Park.

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Um, and I'll report out probably next meeting if if I have that by that time about what that is. And lastly, just rife continues with softball uh on Saturdays and hopefully we get a little bit better weather for these guys. Right. So, and that's all I my report tonight.

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>> Thank you, Councilman U Pablo. Um, >> Ramfest would have been cheaper, Glen. >> Yep. >> Ramfest would have been cheaper. >> Exactly. >> Yeah. No, then the divorce would have cut been expensive. >> I could have given a big donation there.

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>> Thank you. Congratulations on your your daughter's marriage, too. That's wonderful, madam Mayor Deodor Dylan. >> Well, thank you. I'll once again pile on about Ramfest. That was a fabulous event. I think I gave away at least 500 green bead necklaces that night. I was

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walking around telling everybody green is the color of the evening and the cool kids wear beads. So I got a lot of people to wear beads. Very happy about that. Um and I do want to thank the stigmafree um team for organizing that. A lot of work went into that. They

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started planning that last year. So I want to thank everybody who's there. And also thanks to Dr. Thumb and Dr. Mario for allowing um Stigmafree to use the high school and also the tables and chairs. That was a huge huge help. So, a

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big thank you to them for that. Um also want to let everybody know Stigmafree is going to be at the Ramsey Farmers Market this weekend. Um so, I should be there. And the Ramsay volunteer fire department dinner. That was very, very nice. and one of the volunteers was recognized for

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60 years of service which I find absolutely remarkable. And that's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. Thank you, Bur Administrator. >> Uh thank you, Council President. I will just have some comments on a few of the

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resolutions tonight. Resolutions 105 and 106. Uh they resolution 105 awards a contract to more productions uh for supplying sta two stages crew sound equipment sound operations for the production services

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of the independence day celebration the burough will have on July 3rd. Uh resolution 106 awards a contract to cliffhanger productions for the entertainment for that evening including the two bands. Resolution 107 authorizes

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the bureau to enter into mutual aid fire agreements with Rockland County municipalities. Uh this allows us to enter into these fire agreements with towns in Rockland County. Whether it's Ramsey responding to a Rockley County town or Rocklin

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County town responding to Ramsey. Many times due to the fact that some of those towns are much closer than current portions of Burton County, the response can be quicker, which is crucial in these emergency situations. So having these agreements just provides another avenue and level of support and backup

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to what are most cases voluntary volunteer emergency services responding to these potentially life-threatening situations. Uh resolutions 108 and 109 uh authorize capital alternatives to prepare a municipal aid grant through

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the Sage program to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for road reservicing projects upcoming or proposed for a portion of Myrtle Avenue and Mechanic Street in the Burrow. The grant process typically concludes late in the fall, so this would be a 2027

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project. Uh Ramsay's been very successful in applying for and receiving grants under this program. For example, we are resurfacing Shady Side Road later this year in a project we also sought out, applied for, and have received grants totaling $427,528

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or over 80% of the anticipated cost of the Shady Side Resurfacing Project. Thereby saving us as taxpayers that same amount for this necessary improvement. Resolution 111 on the agenda tonight urges the state leaders to initiate real

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change in the health care plans and plan structure in the t state health benefit program. Real structural reform is needed to lower costs the employee participants in the program and the residents and taxpayers who are impacted by these costs. Ramsay's been proactive

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in providing options for its employees to choose a high deductible plan coupled with a health reimbursement account which has mitigated some of the annual cost escalation we've seen in our budget. But more work is needed in action from Trenton uh to help with the

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structure of the state system. Resolution 113 on the agenda awards a contract to Musco Sports Lighting for Finch Park Basketball and pickle ball courts. Uh this is for a contract for the court lighting in the upcoming project at Finch to resurface the

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basketball courts and pickle ball courts and adding two additional pickle ball courts. The contract is is awarded under a turnkey contract through the Sourcewell cooperative purchasing agreement in the amount of $35,230. The burrow had sought out and received

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$89,780 in grant funding to mitigate almost 30% of the cost of the project to the town. Uh the court work uh for this project will be under a separate resolution and contract with another vendor in an

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upcoming meeting. Uh resolution 114 uh awards a contract to clear span fabric structures for a new pre-fabricated metal garage building for vehicle and equipment storage behind the existing DPW garage. Um this will be just um the

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building will be in place during construction of the or reconstruction of the uh emergency service complex on island A. So in the during construction it will house the equipment and apparatus from the fire and rescue

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squads and then upon uh move back to island it will be used for DPW equipment moving forward and uh their oper trucks. Um, so this is awarded under a source well cooperative purchasing agreement and this is the for the procurement and

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delivery of the building in an amount of $137,94682. And lastly, I would just uh comment uh and say with regret uh on the resignation of Kevin D'Ach. He's been a longtime employee in the water department and done an outstanding job

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for us and he will be missed. And that would conclude my comments. >> Thank you, Mr. Boz. Burough attorney. >> Nothing. Thank you. >> Burough clerk. >> Nothing. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you both. There are no introductions of ordinances this

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evening. Is there any unfinished business? Any new business? I'd like to uh ask for a motion for adjournment, please. >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you. Second. >> Thank you very much. All in favor

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7:37. Thank you.