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Thank you. There are two participants in the conference. Please announce yourself. Okay, here we go. Ready, mayor? >> Yes. >> All right. Thank you. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the mayor council meeting of the bureau of Ramsey for Wednesday, July

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22nd, 2026. This meeting is also being conducted telephonically. The dial number is 425436 6365, access code 213563. And of course, the meeting may also be viewed on the Ramsey YouTube channel.

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Can I have a roll call, please? Mayor Dylan >> here. >> Councilwoman Cusk >> here. [clears throat] >> Councilman Gerson >> here. >> Councilman Gutwer >> here. >> Councilman Kilman >> here. >> Councilman Papo >> here. >> And Councilwoman Poppy is not here.

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>> Thank you. Flag salute. >> I will ask Mr. Creel to lead us in the flag salute. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and

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justice for all. The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law was enacted to ensure the right of all 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

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act. Notice of this meeting of the Maran Council was published in the Bergen record and the Suburban News on Wednesday, January 15, 2026 and is posted on our legal notices page at www.ranscj.com. ranchj.com. Hey, can we have approval of minutes,

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please? >> I make a motion to approve the minutes from 62426. >> Madame Mayor, this is Councilwoman Cusk, and I second that. >> Thank you. Does anyone have any comments or changes on the meeting minutes? >> No. Okay. Roll call, please.

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>> Councilwoman Cusk, >> yes. >> Councilman Gerson, >> yes. >> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Kilman, >> yes. >> Councilman Pablo, >> yes. >> Thank you. Uh, communications. >> Yes, ma'am. Mayor, I make a motion to receive and file the communications. The

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seven items was listed on the agenda for Wednesday, July 22nd, >> I'll second that. >> Thank you. Any comments on the communications? >> Not hearing any. Roll call, please. >> Councilwoman Cusk, >> yes. >> Councilman Gerson, >> yes.

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>> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Kilman, >> yes. >> Councilman Papo, >> yes. >> Thank you. We will now open the meeting to public comment. 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.

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There will be a 5minute time limit for 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 be seated to anyone else and no time

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shall be saved for later use. Any responses may be given during the governing body's comments later in the meeting or it's directed by the chair. The Buring clerk is the official timekeeper. Okay. Anyone in council chambers wishing to make public comment?

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Okay. Not seeing anyone. Is there anyone on the line that would like to make a public comment? Second call for public comment. Third and final call for public comment. And I will close public comment. Let's move on now to the advertised public hearing for final consideration of

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ordinances. Ordinance 14 hyphen 2026. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. This is councilwoman Cusk and I would like to discuss the final ordinance 14-2026. This is an ordinance amending the code of the burrow of Ramsey County of Bergen, state of New Jersey, and more

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particularly chapter 3 thereof entitled police regulations so as to establish section 3-33 control of invasive plants having brought up been brought up for public hearing and all persons interested having been given an

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opportunity to be heard past final reading by title and that said ordinance be adopted as an ordinance of the Burough of Ramsey via further resolve that the burough clerk be and she hereby is directed to cause a copy of the title

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of said ordinance to be published in an official newspaper of the bureau in the manner provided by law together with a notice of the date of introduction and adoption of said ordinance. >> Thank you. Do we have a second? >> I second.

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>> Okay. Any comments on this ordinance? >> Yes, madam mayor. Um, this ordinance amends chapter 3 of the burough code to add regulations for the control of invasive plants, bamboo and others. It particular in particular, it regulates and calls for the removal of invasive

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plants such as bamboo on properties in the burrow. >> Thank you. And I believe this is what um we heard from Magdalena Jun Dominico and Dean Pinto regarding this. >> Yes, two uh correspondents from that. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. I will now

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open ordinance 142026. Open it for public hearing. Is there anyone here wishing to comment on ordinance 14206? Okay. Not seeing anyone step up in the council chambers. I'll ask anyone on the line. First call for comments on

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ordinance 14 2026. Second call for comments. Okay, third and final call for comments. >> Okay, since there's no comments on it, I will close the public hearing. Can we uh now have a roll call? >> Councilwoman Cusk, >> yes. >> Councilman Gerson, >> yes.

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>> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Kilman, >> yes. >> Councilman Papo, >> yes. >> Thank you. I'm council going to ask for a motion to amend ordinance 15206 and re reintroduce it as amended under ordinances for introduction.

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>> Madame Mayor, I'll make that motion, please. Madam Mayor, I'll second them. >> Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Councilwoman Cusk, >> yes. >> Councilman Gerson, >> yes. >> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Kilman, yes. >> Councilman Pablo, >> yes. >> Thank you. I hereby make the following

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appointments. Jason Chioko, Ramsey Rescue Squad, probationary member. And William Troy, Ramsey Rescue Squad, probationary member. Let's now move on to consent resolutions. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Be it resolved that resolutions 143 2026 through and

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including 159 2026 having been considered by the governing body of the burrow of Ramsey B and are hereby passed and approved. We have a couple block party requests this evening. Uh, Grand View Terrace is requesting permission to hold the block

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party on Saturday, July 18th from 2026 from 12:30 to 8:00 p.m. And Twin Brook is requesting permission to hold the block party on Saturday, September 26, 2026 from 3 to 10 p.m. >> I'll second that.

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>> Thank you. Before we have a roll call, I will open up resolution 157206 for public hearing. And that is the renewal of the liquor license at 917 for 900 Route 17 North Holdings LLC doing business as Brothers Barbecue for 2026

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27. Is there anyone who would wish to comment on the renewal of that liquor license under Route 17 North at Brothers Barbecue? Okay, not seeing anyone in chambers. I'll ask if is there anyone on the line that would like to comment on 157206.

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Second call for comments. Third and final call for comments. Not hearing any. I'll close. Okay. Does anyone have any comments on the consent resolutions? All right. We'll have Mr. Bose discuss them later. Sure. Many of them. Thank

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you. Okay. Roll call, please. >> Councilwoman Cusk, >> yes. >> Councilman Gerson, >> yes. >> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Kilman, >> yes. >> Councilman Papo, >> yes. >> Thank you. Committee and Leon reports, >> finance administration. Councilman

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Gutner. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Our reports this evening, a little shorter version tonight. uh for the library board. Library has a slate of events all summer long that relate to the 250th anniversary of

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USA. They will have number of events for adults including local history presentations, revolutionary times, vibrous spinning demonstrations, genealogology workshops, concerts, kids celebrations, and much more. The library has been and will be participating in various outreach events throughout the

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community to spread awareness of library services. The library has partnered with the Bergen County Division of Senior Services as well as the Alzheimer's, New Jersey nonprofit to become a dementia friendly library. This is a program where a library now has a selection of books and material that will be helpful

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to caregivers. And the library has also created memory kits which are free to borrow from the library. The library has finalized a union contract with all parties in agreement and signed. This agreement runs from 2026 to 2029. And residents can check the library's

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website for summer programming. For the recreation commission, registration for fall [music] sports are available on the Ramsey Recreation website where there are links to the various sports. Summer day camp at Finch Park began last month and runs through this Friday, February,

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oops, excuse me, July 24th. And spring men's and women's adult softball leagues are winding down their season. Uh Ramsey Farmers Market is open on Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 2 pm through November. In December, the hours will change from

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10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. And uh make a note on August 16th, the pet peach festival will be held at the farmers market and is sponsored by the women's club of Ramford. My report for this evening. >> Thank you. Public safety Councilman Kilman.

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>> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Uh, first I want to congratulate Jason and William on their appointments tonight to the Ramsey squad as probation area members. Thank you for your service and thank you for volunteering. Public safety um work continues to move forward on Ramsey's new state-of-the-art

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fire rescue and office of emergency management complex on South Island Road. The new facility will replace the existing building which will be demolished. Preparations are also underway at the DPW facility location at West Side on West Side for a temporary

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station that will house fire, rescue, and other emergency services equipment during construction. Mr. Bose will provide additional details in his report. Tonight, we will introduce an ordinance appropriating the funding needed to authorize the construction

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phase of that new fire rescue and office of emergency management complex. We are currently anticipating going out to bid this summer. On another topic from the Ramsey Police, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission

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has implemented new statewide requirements for electric bike bicycle ebike operators and this took effect as of July 1st. The key changes are riders must be at least 15 years old. Operators

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must possess either a valid New Jersey driver's license or a New Jersey MVC issued ebike motorized bicycle license if required for their vehicle classification. Registration is required for ebikes that meet the New Jersey Motor Vehicle

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Commission's motorized bicycle classification. Some higher speed motorized bicycles require liability insurance and standard low-speed ebikes generally do not. The Ramsey Police Department encourages all ebike owners and parents to review these

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new requirements and ensure they are in compliance before riding. Riding responsibly and following traffic laws helps keep everyone safe. I know it sounds a little complicated, but you can get very um simplified details as to what you need to look at and how you

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need to address it if you go to the the um New Jersey www.nj.govc. gov/mbbc website and simply type in ebikes and all that information will come up. Madame Mayor, that concludes my report.

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>> Thank you. Building planning and zoning council. [clears throat] >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. [laughter] >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um I have nothing to report on the design review board as the next meeting is scheduled for July 28th and the zoning board

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meeting there was one single family home application which was granted their variances for an addition renovation and that's all I have to report tonight. >> Thank you. Utilities buildings and grounds councilwoman Cusk. Thank you,

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Madam Mayor, and I want to thank Jason Chio and William Troy for their service. I also want to thank the Burough of Ramsey and the teams for supporting our nation's 250th Independence Day celebration. Thank you to Shopright and Sarah for providing water and ice to

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help keep the folks hydrated. And it was my honor to take part in the Independence Day events, including the parade, the hometown hero softball game, the farmers market dessert contest, and the patriotic concert at the library. I also extend my thanks to Ramsey

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Ambulance, and to the fans, Mayor Dylan and family, Councilwoman Poppy, and my husband Chris who brave the heat during the softball game. My report tonight will be an update regarding our planning board, Sha Tree Commission, and Board of Public Works. The Ramsey Planning Board.

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The July 21st meeting last night was cancelled due to the severe weather. The next meeting will be in September. Ramsey has a no knock registry. It maintains it and allows that residents opt out of door-to-door commercial solicitation. You can enroll by visiting

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the burough website and complete the online application. Search no knock list. The Shade Tree Commission. Our next meeting is September 17th. The August meeting's been cancelled. Our commission is made up of Ramsey resident

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volunteers who dedicate dedicate their time to preserving, protecting, and expanding our tree canopy. Ramsey's been a tree city for 32 years. At our July 16th meeting, we honored four longtime members of our commission for their

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service. Henry Schumacher for 33 years, Stan Rukowski for 20 years, Ken Gabbala for 17 years, and Nancy Gist for 11 years. The Ramsey Public Board of Works last met Monday the 20th of July. The next

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meeting is August 16th. The board of public works continues to plan and implement measures to comply with the NJDm mandated lead service line replacement program which requires all lead service lines in the burough's water system to be replaced by the year

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2031. To meet this mandate, the burough will cover the cost of replacing the portion of each water service line that it owns, while property owners will be responsible for replacing the privately owned portion of their service line.

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Initially, the bureau explored whether it could cover the full cost of cost of replacing both the public and private portions of affected service lines. The bureau determined that it would not be fiscally responsible or equitable to do so because it would cause increases in

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water and sewage bills for all rate play rate payers. This approach is consistent with the framework adopted by other municipalities throughout New Jersey. To help offset the cost, homeowners may apply for the bureau's $750

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reimbursement program toward eligible lead service line replacement work. Recognizing the financial impact of these statemandated improvements, mayor and council acted in April to extend the partial reimbursement program through December 31st, 2026. Please go to the

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bureau's website for more information. And finally, H2M completed the 2026 consumer confidence report, which summarizes the results of our Ramsey systems drinking water for 2025. The report documents that there were no

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water quality violations during the 2025 calendar year. The CCR postcard was mailed to customers in mid June and the entire report is available for viewing on the Ramsey website and copies are available at Burough Hall, the library and the burough garage. Madame Mayor,

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thank you very much for the opportunity to discuss. >> Thank you. Anyone have any report for Councilwoman Poppy? >> Actually, Madam Mayor, I do. I don't know why I first beat it back down. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um, so public and governmental relations

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Councilwoman Poppy writes, "I would like to thank everyone involved for their participation in the kickoff of Ramse's America 250 celebration. And it was wonderful to see our local organizations and boards come together with their ideas to help plan a spectacular program

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of events for our community over Independence Day weekend. Thank you to everyone who participated in the parade, the softball game, competitions, and attended events. Unfortunately, the one thing we couldn't control impacted our celebration plans, but we did our best

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to enjoy as much of the program as feasible. She means the weather. Um, thank you to Mayor Dylan for the quick pivot and coordination of safety measures and reschedules throughout the weekend. It was a tremendous task with quickly changing variables. And thank

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you to the DPW, the OEM, burough office staff, Ramsey, the mayor and council, and all emergency service teams for your support and hard work. To the Ensera family for the donation of bottled water to keep us hydrated during the hot days. Although

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it didn't go quite as expected, the lift was monumental and everyone involved worked incredibly hard to ensure a full and exciting weekend was planned for our community. We look forward to continuing the 250th celebration at events such as the rescheduled pool party to be held on

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September 5th and the fireworks and live music to be held on Ramsay Day which will be October 3rd. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Thank you. Health, Education, Social Services, Councilman Pablo. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor.

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Just a brief um update tonight. Uh congratulations to Jason William and thank you for your for your service. Uh Ramsey Municipal Alliance, next meeting is 7:27, so that's next week. for Reife.

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Uh the pool party is scheduled for August 20th uh from 4 PM to 7 pm. Uh and the next challenger event will be soccer in September. Just to let you know for that. Again, the pool party, we are expecting a pretty big crowd uh coming

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for that. Uh board of ed, no meeting in July, no meeting in August. So, we'll meet next in September. And on the environmental committee, uh, while there's no meeting in July, the next meeting is August 11th. I did have correspondence with Jackson. >> Oh, thank you.

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>> Who? Yeah. Who wants to do a community service with the uh cleanup. I think it's a great idea. We were planning on doing something with the high school to start a program with them anyway. So, it fits perfectly. So, we should be able to move that along. And that is my update.

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>> Thank you. Thank you for my comments. I want to thank everybody who participated in the events over July 3rd, fourth, and 5th. A lot of planning went into them. Um, a lot of coordination, especially great job by Councilwoman Poppy, and

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unfortunately, as everybody knows, the weather did not cooperate, but we'll pick up with it again. And I want to thank the historical association for opening up the Stonehouse on that Saturday. They did an absolutely wonderful job with their tours. Very, very impressive. Um, the whole thing

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with the maps that they did for the Revolutionary War. So, really well done by them. Great attendance at the library for the concert. There are at least 40 people, which is great. And Farmers Market did a nice job and congratulations to the winner of the apple contest, apple baking dessert

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contest. She did a wonderful job. Um, Katie, that was Katie who won. So, yes. And I also want to thank everybody who works behind the scenes because there's so many. Mr. Vose, the OEM, the DPW, the police department, fire, rescue, you

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name it. Everybody was helping that day. Really tremendous effort. And of course, people have mentioned the generosity of the Sarah family. They donated two pallets of water and also um ice. And I started to get very worried that Sunday before when I saw the weather forecast.

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And I actually texted Mr. and Sarah just to ask him like you know is there any way you think you could donate ice to us water and ice he called me that night said okay what do you need let me know and they were so absolutely wonderful to us so I want to thank them for their generosity um congratulations to Jason

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Chako and William Troy for joining Ramsey Rescue Squad because we're always looking for new members and that is a great place for young people to start at rescue the training that they receive um and Mr. Bose will go over a lot of the resolutions in more detail, but I just

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want to mention resolutions 158 and 159. So, these are safety improvements around Tinsdale School, and we're also milling repaving Shady Side this year. And what I really want to focus is that through the burough's due diligence, both of those projects are at no cost to the

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burough. We receive grant money that will cover 100% of those projects. So, thank you, Mr. Ros, for always helping us with grants. And also I want to focus on resolution 146 because finally the 13 towns in northwest Oregon we're having a

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deer deer density study done and you know as everybody knows the deer they don't know property lines and they don't know town lines so they wander from Allenale to Ramsey all through it and we are trying to seek a solution for this unfortunately the county will not partner with us um and that's

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unfortunate because we have Ramico reservation and we have campa which attract a a lot of deer and we've repeatedly asked the county for help on this and the county has repeatedly said no. Um so the northwest bergen towns were just trying to figure something out

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to do it ourselves as much as we can and that's all I have. Mr. Bose. >> Thank you Madame Mayor. Um I will as you mentioned comment on some of the resolutions and ordinances on tonight's agenda in my report. Um, as the mayor

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just mentioned, resolution 146, uh, this is the 13 13 towns in northwest Bergen. Uh, we sought out a grant to have a deer density study performed. Uh, this resolution authorizes Ramsey, who's the lead agent, uh, for the 13 towns of

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Northwest Bergen, uh, to enter into the grant agreement on the, uh, town's behalf with the state. The grant is for $28,990.72 which covers 100% of the cost of the study. So that will give at least a starting point of each town what their

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density currently looks like and then if we take the study further on you know not a year from now or two years from now there are measures taken in between you'll have at least a gauge of whether things are effective or not. Uh resolution 148 on the agenda approves

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the collective bargaining agreement with the white collar union here at Burough Hall. It's a four-year collectively bargained labor agreement. It represent they the people in Burough Hall, non-managers, non-supervisors that are in Burough Hall as well as police dispatchers and crossing guards. The

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agreement includes annual salary increases of 2.75% for each of the four years in the contract. Also in working to mitigate the high annual increases in health insurance costs nationwide over the last two years. The bureau has introduced

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some lowerc cost high deductible health plans coupled with health reimbursement accounts to mitigate some of the increases and those are again incorporated in this agreement and the new contra contract term runs through 2029. Resolution 149 awards a contract to

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Boswell Engineering to provide services for Abby Court guide rail project. We're making a recommended safety improvement on A Court with the installation of a guide rail and this authorized Boswell to provide the D design work and

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inspection services on the project. Resolution 153 authorizes award of a contract to clear span fabric structures. This awards the contract under a source well cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of overhead doors and the installation

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of these doors on at and the pre-fabricated steel building uh behind the going in behind the DPW in an amount of $240,383. Uh funding from this had been previously approved. Resolution 154 authorizes

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award of a contract to rich tree service uh for tree work uh through the shade tree commission under state contract. Resolution 155 authorizes salary rates for both the full and part-time non-union employees as well as part-time

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hourly rates for the DPW work based on the type of duty. Uh again, this resolution sets salary rates for the five full-time non-UN employees not come covered under an individual employment contract. As with the settled union contracts, the annual increase of 2.75%

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is incorporated in the amounts for both 2026 and 2027. In addition, the resolution also provides the option of choosing a highdeductible health insurance plan, which is more economical to both the burrow and the employee under the same terms as provided in the settled union

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contracts. Uh, [clears throat] also improved in the resolution are 2.75% increases for certain part-time non-UN employees as well as mentioned the updated hourly 2026 rates for part-time DPW employees uh with the different work duties they

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perform. For example, there's a rate for leaf removal, snow removal, as well as regular duties. Uh, resolution 156 uh, authorizes title and work duty changes with corresponding salary adjustments for employees whose

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positions are part of the UPSu white collar union. Some of these modifications are from previous retirements uh, without replacement or employees leaving the burrow and others from additional responsibilities taken on. uh resolution 157 as the mayor had

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the hearing during the uh during the resolutions earlier tonight. This was not part of the last meeting. His brother's barbecue was still completing the renewal process. That process has now been completed there completed. There were no issues. Uh so the renewal as we said was approved earlier this

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evening. Resolution 158 authorizes award of a contract to Nimavi Group for the local aid inru infrastructure project which consists of work around Tisdale school in terms of sidewalks and curb replacements and pedestrian crossing sign signals. Uh the burough went out to

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bid on this project. Three biders submitted bids. Nimavi was the low bidder at 247,461. Christopher Statel the burough's engineer for the project recommended approval from a technical perspective burough attorney Scanderado reviewed the

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bids for legal compliance well as well and concurs with the recommendation. Uh as the mayor mentioned the burrow on this project sought out applied for and received grant funding for this project in the amount of 250,000. So therefore based on the bid 100% of the project construction costs will be

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covered fully by the grants obtained and have no cost to the taxpayers. Um the burrow will obviously pay for it and then be reimbursed when the work is complete by the grants. Resolution 159 authorized award of a contract to for cleanup inc for local

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aid infrastructure. This is as the mayor mentioned the resurf surfacing of full length of Shadyside road. We went out to public bid. Four biders submitted for Cleanup Inc. was the low bidder at $338,91340. And Christopher Statiel, the burrow engineer for this project, recommended

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the approval from a technical perspective. Again, the burough attorney reviewed the bids for legal compliance and concurs with the recommendation. And again, as mentioned earlier, we sought out grants for this project. uh and those grants exceed the construction

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um bid for uh for cleanup and therefore again there will be 100% coverage on the construction costs for this from this grant that we had received. Resolution uh 160 authorizes award of a contract to

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crossing guard services. The burrows reviewed the management of crossing guard services as a number of municipalities have moved to having thirdparty vendors manage these services. Some neighboring towns that have successfully moved to this system are Rididgewood, Hokus, and Glenrock. The crossing guards become employees of

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the management management company rather than the burrow. In all cases, and in our bid proposal, the existing crossing guards and Ramsay are offered the same position, the same hourly rate as they currently make. This has proven successful in freeing up police officers time and nonofficer

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uh nonofficer time. Um crossing guard services is the low bid and the change over will start uh with the new school year in September. >> Thank you, Mr. Rosa. That was quite extensive. [laughter]

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>> All right. Um for >> nothing. Thank you. >> For clerk, >> nothing. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. We'll move on to introduction of ordinances. Ordinance 15 2026. >> Okay. >> Councilman Gutter.

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>> There you go. >> I got I got Okay. Comments. >> Sure. >> Okay. Okay. This is the introduction of ordinance 152026. Be it resolved that an ordinance entitled an ordinance amending chapter

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10 of the code of the burough Ramsey County, New Jersey and more specifically section 10-23 compensation. pass the first reading by title and that sent ordinance be further considered for final passage and adoption at a regular meeting of the mayor and council to be

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held on the 26th day of August 2026 7 p.m. prevailing time or as soon after as the matter can be reached at the municipal building in said burrow and be further resolved that the burough clerk be and she hereby is instructed to publish in an official newspaper of the burrow in the manner provided by law a

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copy of said ordinance together with notice of introduction thereof and notice when the same will be considered for final passage and adoption >> I second madam mayor >> okay thank you do we have any comments on 152026 >> yes madam mayor I would just say that

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the burough debts salaries based on collectively bargained agreements with those employees who are covered by uh union contracts and these applicable agreements. Uh by resolution we set non-employee salaries. However, we do maintain by ordinance a salary range for

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certain positions where which is updated typically annually or bianually. Uh this is an update to that ordinance and to reiterate this does not set salaries. It just sets a range for which those salaries should fall into.

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>> Thank you. Any other comments? >> Not hearing any. Roll call. >> Councilwoman Cusk. >> Yes. >> Councilman Gerson. >> Yes. >> Councilman Gotwer. >> Yes. >> Councilman Kilman. >> Yes. >> Councilman Pablo. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Poppy.

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>> Thank you. Ordinance. 2026. >> Thank you, Madam Mayor. This is the introduction of ordinance 162026. Be it resolved that an ordinance entitled bond ordinance to authorize the undertaking of the construction phase of the fire department rescue squad office

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of emergency management station complex project in by for the bureau of Ramsey in the county of Bergen state of New Jersey to appropriate the sum of 15 million $50,000 to pay the cost thereof to make a down

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payment to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance such appropriation and to provide for the issuance of bond anticipation notes in anticipation for the issuance of such bonds. Pass the first reading by title and that said ordinance be further considered for

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final passage and adoption at a regular meeting of the mayor and council to be held on the 26th day 2026 7 p.m. prevailing time or as soon after as the matter can be reached at the municipal building in said burrow. And be it further resolved that the burough

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clerk be and she hereby is in instructed to publish in an official newspaper of the burrow in the banner provided by law a copy of said ordinance together with notice of introduction thereof and notice when the sentence be considered for final passage and adoption.

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>> Madame mayor, this is councilwoman Cusk and I second. >> Thank you. Uh can we have a discussion of this one please? Sure. >> Thank you, administrator. >> Um, this B bond ordinance introduces the funding for the demolition of the

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current fire department and rescue squad building on South Island Avenue and the construction of a new public safety complex to include fire department rescue squad and the office of emergency management. Councilman Kilman has commented and updated the public at each mayor and council meeting over the last

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few years as this project has been developing, been revised, and now finalized. This ordinance authorizes the amount of funding at 15,50,000. However, the burough will not borrow the full amount immediately. Will match its borrowing over the construction period

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to the schedule values and timing of contract payments over the anticipated 18month construction timeline. The burrow is also making a $720,000 down payment from its budgeted capital improvement fund account which will

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reduce the maximum future debt amount and the borrowing amount during the construction period. As previously discussed, the fire department and rescue squad will be operating out of the westside garage adjacent to the DPW. Additionally, as discussed, the burrow is constructing constructing a

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pre-fabricated garage behind the existing DPW which will h house the fire and rescue apparatus and equipment during the construction of the island complex. This new building at the DPW already has funding in place. We have awarded a couple contracts for materials

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and construction and should be great breaking ground shortly. We look to have this completed in the next couple months so as to coincide the timing of the completion of this building with the timing of a contract award for the demolition and construction of the new South Island Avenue complex. We

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anticipate the public bid process for the construction project for this new South Island building to be advertised in the next two weeks and then have about a 30-day period for the biders to do their due diligence and prepared their seal bids for submission. The bids will be th thoroughly reviewed at that

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point by both burough officials and not an architect who is the burough's professional representatives on the project prior to any contract award. As this is a public bid under the public contract laws, the contract award will ultimately be made to the low bid

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as long as the bidder is qualified. This award will be done in the future by resolution at an upcoming mayor and council meeting after the bids are u opened and analyzed. That concludes comment on ordinance 16.

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Ordinance 17 2026 amendes amends the violation bureau schedule. >> Oh, I'm sorry. That's right. >> Sorry. Hold on. >> Still on the same one. >> I have one. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Sure. Um, this project has been taking a

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number of years and I want to recognize the grancy design committee who over those several years working with Mr. Jose and dealing with supply chain issues, economic swings in the global market in the United States. They took

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their expertise in innovative approaches and took the initial design and cut potentially 7 to8 million off it to save our taxpayers uh the money uh to to raise taxes to an extremely high level or much higher than we would have

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anticipated. and without compromising the state-of-the-art practices and the requirements of that firehouse. Several of those members are in this room tonight. I thank them. Others couldn't make it, but uh it was quite an effort.

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I'm glad we're at this station. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other comments? >> All right. Just to make clear, this is just a funding ordinance. This is not the award of contract because no bidding has taken place yet. Okay. Thank you. Roll call, please.

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>> Councilwoman Cusk, >> yes. >> Councilman Gerson, >> yes. >> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Kilman, >> yes. >> Councilman Papo, >> yes. >> Thank you. Ordinance 17, 2022. >> Okay. Thank you, Madam Mayor.

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>> This is an introduction of ordinance 17 2026. resolved an ordinance entitled an ordinance amending chapter 1 of the code of the burrow of Ramsey County of Bergen, state of New Jersey, so as to establish a local supplemental violations bureau schedule of designated

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offenses and payable amounts as well as chapter 7 traffic penalties and chapter 8 municipal parking lots and on street parking penalties. pass the first reading by title and that sign ordinance be further considered for final passage and adoption at a regular meeting of the

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mayor and council to be held on the 26th day of August 2026 7 p.m. prevailing time or soon after as the matter can be reached at the initial building in said burrow and be it further resolved that the burough clerk be and she hereby instructed to publish an official

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newspaper of the burrow in the manner provided by law a copy of said ordinance together with notice of introduction thereof and notice when the same will be considered for final passage and adoption. >> I'll second that. >> Thank you. Any comment?

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>> Sure. Uh, this ordinance amends Ramsay's municipal court's violation schedule of fees which has not been updated since 2013. The court administrator and municipal judge have recommended the updates. The changes basically impact violations that currently have a $50

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penalty will now move to $75 penalty. >> Thank you. >> Roll call, please. >> Councilwoman Cusk, >> yes. >> Councilman Gerson, >> yes. >> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Kilman, >> yes. >> Councilman Pablo, >> yes. Thank you. Ordinance 18 2026.

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Mayor, do you want to hand me the phone? >> Sure. >> Thank you very much. >> And turn to ordinance 18-2026. Be it resolved that an ordinance entitled an ordinance amending chapter 19 of the code of the bureau of Ramsey, Bergen County, New Jersey, and more

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specifically subsection 19-2.1 thereof entitled fees for water usage pass the first reading by title and that said ordinance be further considered for final passage and adoption at a regular meeting of the mayor and council to be

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held on the 26th day of August 2026. 6 700 p.m. prevailing time or as soon after as the matter can be reached at the municipal building in said burrow. Be it further resolved that the burough clerk be and she hereby is instructed to

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publish in an official newspaper of the burrow in the manner provided by law a copy of set ordinance together with notice of introduction thereof and notice when the same will be considered for final passage and adoption. >> We have a second. >> I second.

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>> Thank you. Any comments on this? >> Um, administrator Bose, we discussed this extensively at our DPW meetings. Can you run a point on it, please? >> Sure. The phone to you. >> Sure. The border, as Councilwoman Cusk mentioned, the Board of Public Works has

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approved the recommendation to increase water usage fees in the bureau by 3.62% effective on September 1st. With enhanced regulations on water quality, the cost of testing, monitoring, and treatment of all drinking water continues to increase. As as noted by

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council president Cusk uh earlier in her comments, Rams Ramsey's water quality continues to meet all federal and state requirements. Ramsay's had no drinking water violations in a number of years, and the burrow's annual water quality reports for both the current year and

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prior years are available for review on the burrow website. >> Thank you. Any other comments? No. Roll call, please. >> Councilwoman Cusk, >> yes. >> Councilman Greson, >> yes. >> Councilman Gutwer, >> yes. >> Councilman Kilman, >> yes. >> Councilman Papo,

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>> yes. >> Thank you. Are there any unfinished or new business? >> I just want to Sorry. >> No, Madam May, you first, please. >> I just want to remind everybody that we only have one council meeting in August and that is August 26th.

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You're mute. Madam Mayor, I I have some new business if I may. Um, Mayor Dylan and I met with Rockland C uh, electric company representatives at a community event in June, and I had a follow-up telephone call with the Rockland Electric team on the 10th of July where

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they presented available programs such as residential energy assessments, income qualified efficiency programs, including free upgrades and weatherization, incentives for decarbonization, community education, and even appliance recycling events.

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I'll work with Councilman Kilman to promote these programs uh with the um from the Rockland Electric um with our Ramsy Rockland Electric customers with our seniors. Um I'll work with Councilman Popo for the um environmental component and

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uh we'll get this information in our fall journal publication and also maybe even events such as Ramsey Day. Thank you, Madame Mayor. >> Thank you. Any other unfinished new business? Okay, not hearing any. Um, we

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have a motion to adjurnn. >> I will make that motion. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> thank you everyone. 746. Excellent.