Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Red Bank Planning Board will now come to order this 13th day of August, 2025. The time is 6:01 p.m. This meeting is being held in accordance with the public clause of 1975, chapter 231. An adequate notice of this meeting has been provided
by notice sent to the Azer Park Press and the Tour River Times as well as posted in the main lobby of the municipal building and on the municipal website. Roll call, please. Mayor Portman absent. Greg Fitzgerald absent.
Christina Bonitakis here. Duso here. Mento. Uh here. Here. Okay. Barbara, can you hear me now? Yes, sir. Okay.
Barbara Boz here. Megan Massie absent. Wilson BB absent. It Hernandez absent. Fred Stella uh absent. Yeah. And Brian Parnean here.
Okay, great. We have um a capital improvement application from the library. They want to put up a sign. So, whoever is here from the library, please tell us what you're up to.
Hi, I'm Candace Valor. I'm the director of the library. We're looking to replace our existing sign that's lighted with um removable letters to a digital sign that can be programmed
um due to staff having to stand out in the snow or the rain to change and update the sign. The sign is approximately 13 14 years old and we're just looking to
be more current with um the sign. The library foundation has raised the funds to sponsor this project and uh we are looking for approval to move forward with replacing the existing sign. It's
exactly the same same size, same layout, same location, just more updated. So, it's in the same spot. It's the same size. You're going to have the Redbank Public Library. You're going to retain that part top.
It's going to be it's going to be uh a totally new. It's new system, but it's going to look it's going to have the same logo at the top. And is it your intention to run the digital sign 24 hours a day?
Yes, unless there's an ordinance that prevents that. I don't know if there is, but there should be. Um, but I'll I'll leave you to whatever the ordinance is on that. And Mr. Chairman, let's just note for
the record that uh Miss Hernandez is here, Mr. BB's here, Miss Massie is here. Yay. Welcome everyone. Um, does anyone have any questions about the sign? Um, Candace, will the the lettering uh
be about the same or is it something that you can completely design um to your liking? We can um design. We can choose if it's going to be three or four uh lines of
text and we can choose if it's going to be uh different colors. It's it's almost exactly the same um at um Johnny Jazz Park. It's the same company.
the same type of sign and there's just specifics that can be chosen when programming. And do you know what the the candle footpower of the light is? How far it will cast? That kind of thing? I know
there's an ordinance on how far you throw light. I don't know what it is. Um but I I think you should certainly comply with that as well. I'm I'm thinking of the neighbors to the east. I realize it's a decent distance and
there's some vegetation there, but I would just take that into account. I do know that when I asked the vendor if it was any brighter than what our existing lighted sign is, and he said no. But I can look at the document, the
spec document, and find that. I think it's on there. And that might all be part of the permitting process. I don't know. Does anyone else have any more questions for Candace about the sign? That being said, I'm happy to make a
motion to the mayor and council that the planning board is okay with this proposal. While I don't like lighted signs, I love the library and uh am and and in there on a regular basis, at least to the box outside picking up books for my wife and
daughter and myself. Um my daughter doesn't live here anymore, but still feels completely okay ordering me to pick up her books. So, uh is there a second for that? I second it. Let me do a quick roll call.
I budgeted 20 minutes for this. So this we're we're well under time. Uh Christina Vodakis. Yes. Damuso. Yes. Lou Dementoto. Lou.
Maybe you're on mute. Lou thumbs up if it's good. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Megan Massie. Yes. Wilson BBE. Yes. Itsu Hernandez. Yes.
Um, and Brian Parnean. Yes. Okay. I don't get to vote. Who? Who's that? Oh, Barbara. I thought I asked you, Barbara. Sorry. Barbara Boaz. Yes. Okay.
I have a question just because I am an employee of the library. Just want to double check. I probably have to uh recuse myself. That would probably be best. What do you think, Mark? Yeah, absolutely. I'm not sure who said that. So, I think so. Yes. Yes. You would have to recuse
yourself from from the vote. Sounds good. Wait, do I have to recuse myself, too? Why? My husband's the vice pres vice president of the board. Yes, that might be wise for you to recuse yourself. I recuse myself. Thank you.
So then I need another second. This is Wilson. Second. Any of us second. We all agree. Second. Second. Well, thank you to everyone else for showing up since two of our earlier
visitors uh can't vote. So, thank you all. That being said, we have nothing else tonight. Sean, are we looking Oh, you have them. You have the minutes. Why do you always forget? Oh, look at that. Yeah, I see it now. Okay. Uh, minutes from July 23rd. Does anyone have any additions, comments, or
questions about them? I move we approve the minutes from the last meeting or whatever is. Okay. Second by Dan. All in favor? I. Okay. Um, just an FYI to the board. I
know Christina and I talked about this earlier, um, but the historic commission right now is working on their his um, design guidelines for uh, the historic districts, um, which are which is the design go design overlay district and
which is the Broad Street District and the um, Washington Street district. um and and then any individual landmarks that are um throughout the town. So, I just wanted to let you all know that the
design guidelines will have to come before um this board because it will be adopted into the um existing um historic preservation ordinance. Um so, it'll have to be reviewed by this board because it's an amendment to the
ordinance. um you will have an opportunity to review the document beforehand. It's it's a lengthy document. Um but we'll give you some time to go through it um just for comments or anything like that. Right now I think um
next week is their the Historic Preservation Commission's meeting. Um so we'll be posting it on the burrow's website under their agenda. um the the first draft, this is not the final draft, it's just the first draft that we're going to post for them to discuss
during their meeting. So, I just wanted to let you all know um that this is going to come before uh this board. So, it's if it's a large document, the sooner we can see it, the better. Obviously, take some time, read it. Um or if you just want to alert us when
it's on the burrow site, if that's enough time, are we going to do this on the 27th? No, this will the the presentation to this board um will be
I want to say la I had the 24th Shaa it will be the 20 no it will be the 8th sorry October 8th so the the presentation to this board will the
October 8th only because the planning uh not the planning the historic preservation commission is going to review the final draft during their September meeting. But right now it's their first draft and um next week they're going to have comments from the public um and then comments from the
overall commission. But the final final um document will be presented to this board on October 8th. Do we have do we have a meeting on August 27th? No.
No. No. We only have one meeting um this month. Right. Yep. And will the HPC meeting where they're going to talk about it be in person or online? It will be in person, but we'll broadcast it too.
All right. If you when you get a second, email us all that link so if we want to hop on that meeting, we can or show up. Okay. Um, that way we can get an early look. Sure. Is there anything else I forgot?
Preview. I would just say about it, it's it is lengthy. I think it clocks in at like 94 pages, but it's uh very well executed, but as you can imagine, a lot of a lot of details in there. So, appreciate the uh cross crossboard
collaboration. Yeah, the first like four to 10 p uh four pages are history and then the rest is like it's very illustrative. Um and it's easy to follow. It's broken down by districts, what applies to what districts, what's not applying to the different districts
because we remember one is a residential district and the other is a commercial district. Um but again, I'll send that out so that you all have it um to review as soon as possible. Other than that, um I have nothing else, but we will have a
meeting in September because there is a site plan um not not site plan, subdivision application um for the first September meeting. So, please just keep that in mind. Where is that? Um that one is
I'll let you I'll let you know, Dan. Okay. Not on the server right now. All right. If we don't have anything else, is there a motion to adjurnn? So move. Second. Second it. Great. All in favor?
Thank you all for spending 14 minutes with us this evening. Thank you everyone. Thank you for making it. Take care. Thank you. Thanks. Well done. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.