Are we ready? >> Good. I call to order the meeting of the mayor and council of Burough River Edge September 4th, 2025 regular meeting at the River Edge Public Library, 685 Elm Avenue and remotely on Zoom. ask everyone to stand for a moment of silent
reflection and perhaps prayer for uh all those children who were injured at the Catholic school in Minnesota as well as all students and families who um began school yesterday or today and perhaps are a little bit anxious.
>> Council Malari >> ready to salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
>> Okay. Statement of compliance with the open public meeting act. This meeting complies with the open public meeting notification on August 20th, 2025 by resolution 25-2 through8 of this location, date and time to the town news in the record and my posting of the same
to the municipal bulletin board and the burough website following notice of the same with the municipal clerk. Madame clerk, roll call, please. >> Sure. Council President Montasano Cohen, >> present. Councilwoman Canella is absent with prior notice. Councilwoman Malari
here. Councilman Benson >> here. >> Councilman Glass >> here. >> Councilwoman Darwal >> here. >> Mayor Pavleo >> here. Okay. Um our first uh item on the
agenda is a presentation by Verizon Wireless. We have Samantha Ericson and Nate Slack. And it looks like we have Kevin Jones and Alexa. I don't know how to say Alexa's last
name. Meta Jur. >> Alex, rather ma Madagers. So, um, who will who would like to, uh, begin? >> Well, good evening everybody. Uh, my name is Kevin Jones from Zublaten Jones
on behalf of Verizon Wireless. Uh, you mentioned the members of our team. We have Samantha Ericson from Verizon Wireless. She's an RF engineer. We have Nate Slack who's the project engineer uh from uh Sherah Design Group and I have Alex Majesca. Hope I didn't bullet
butcher that from NBNC. He's our site acquisition specialist. Uh um what Verizon's uh plans to do here, Verizon obviously is an FCC licensed carrier and they're uh working to enhance their network throughout the state. Uh they
found a couple gaps in not only coverage but also capacity. uh and they're want to place uh for this particular instance one new pole within the right of way. Now, recently the FCC passed an order uh that allows municipalities that actually
requires municipalities to make their rights of way available uh to carriers provided certain conditions are met. Uh Verizon worked with PSENG in terms of looking at the existing infrastructure uh and also um placing a new pole set within the right of way uh to meet these
FCC requirements. Uh the proposed poll and we'll have u Nate momentarily bring up a uh some drawings so you can see what it looks like. Uh but in general it's consist of a 38 1/2 ft wood pole similar to the existing wood poles. Uh
it's going to house uh LTE 4G antennas as well as 5G uh an antenna uh again to enhance 5G coverage. Uh the purpose of this site is to enhance coverage really between the two schools. You notice the strategic location between the Riverdale
High School and the middle school. Uh the proposed poll is right along Willow uh in front of nearest address is about 921 Willow. Uh so not only will this enhance Verizon's wireless network uh but it will also uh benefit the burrow
of river edge. Burrow uh and Verizon are partners in and Verizon has a uh or the burrow uses Verizon one talk feature. uh and this is an innovative new uh 5G based uh service that allows crisis communications that allows the
municipality uh to to really um enhance its first first responders communications. Uh you know, we unfortunately took a moment moment of silence uh for a very terrible tragedy tragedy uh and these sorts of things uh do require enhanced communication. So
with law enforcement and first responders are really on edge across the country and this one talk uh Verizon service which is enhanced again by the 5G network really allows these first responders in in in emergencies any type of situation where you know real time
communications is paramount uh to to operate you know uh to the best it can. Uh so uh without much more than that uh I'd like to um have Mr. Slack uh show the board. Um before we do that, are
there any questions so far uh regarding this proposed uh single pole installation of a small cell? >> So Kevin, what we're going to do is we're going to let you do a full presentation and then the council will ask questions if if that's okay. >> That that's perfect, Mayor. Thank you. Uh so Nate, if we could bring that up,
we're going to just show you a um some engineering drawings to show you exactly what the pole looks like, where it's located, uh and and some of the dimensions of the installation. All right. So, we have our poll that's proposed and it's going to be right here
on the west side of Willow A. >> Nate, can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Um, can you maximize the screen and go into presentation mode because it's very difficult for us to see what you what you're presenting? >> Sure, no problem. Let me see if I can do that real quick.
[Music] Yeah, that's good. >> Okay, >> maybe just a little bit uh more zoom. >> Okay, >> zoom it in. Sure. Other way. >> Zoom in, please. >> You went out. >> All right. >> Yeah. No, that's not good. A little bit more if you could.
>> Little in. Sure. >> Yeah. You had it zoomed a little better. >> All right, >> that's good. All right, we'll we'll go with that. >> All right, I can go in just a little bit. There we go. >> There we go. That's better. >> All right,
we're going to go with the proposed poll is going to be on the west side of Willow Avenue. It's going to be on block 105 between lots five and six. And it's going to be in between the high school and the middle school.
And it's going to be in the area of the grass strip between the sidewalk and the curb approximately or approximately set a foot and a half between or behind the face of the curb on the west side of the
road. We are going to be installing the pole. And on the pole will be a total of 38 1/2 ft tall. Um, down at the bottom of the pole will be your meter set so they know how to charge the charge the electric from PSCG. Then there's going
to be a load center which is similar to a breaker panel in your house. Um, set at 8t to the bottom of that. Then at 12 feet there's going to be an equipment shroud that is set that will hold the
radios for the equipment at the top. Um at 19 ft there will be the proposed fiber line coming in for the data and that'll hit the splice box at about the same elevation. At 30 feet, the secondary line will come
in feeding a 100 amp service, which is like your home but a little bit smaller. At 35 feet is the center of a panel antenna. And at 41 ft to the center of the top
antenna and 42 ft overall. anything to add Nate or >> No, that's it. >> Okay. Uh so so that's it in a nutshell. And uh typically uh in the absence of a a codified ordinance, um the
the way to approve these or or obtain approval if you go you go either straight to permits or you get some form of municipal consent. Uh and that's why we're presenting it uh to the council. Uh you do have a wireless component to your wireless ordinance, but it doesn't uh pertain to installations within the
public rights of way. Uh so this is again this installation as I mentioned and as a Nate described is consistent with the requirements uh of the FCC order. It's it's 18-133. I can share that uh with with your attorney uh or or
or you I'll forward it to an uh and if you have any questions I'll open up to you guys now. >> Okay. So u Alex and Samantha will not be presenting. We're done with the presentation. Kevin. >> Uh, well, you know, I can I can have um
Why don't Samantha talk a little bit uh about the coverage gap? Uh, I was going to save that in case you guys had questions, but yeah, I think you know, good idea. Samantha, if you could just basically explain, I gave a quick overview if you could maybe articulate a little better than I did in terms of why Verizon needs this site because, you
know, Verizon's not in the business of just putting holes in antenna sets where they don't need them. If you could Oh, yeah. explain why why this is a good place for it for this particular installation. Mhm. So the these two schools are covered by what we call a macro site
which is basically on a tower with all the the large antennas on it and that is running is projected to run over capacity starting actually it's running over capacity now now that I look at the double check the records
and that one sector of that macro which is sort of what we call the antenna's facing a certain ction. As I mentioned, the ones that are facing the high school and the middle school are over capacity, and we have aggregate data on the use of
the cell. It's anonymized, so it's not spying on anybody, but we know roughly how far away um people are when they use their phones on this sector of this cell. And we've determined that a lot of them are at the uh the high school and
the middle school. So that's why we want to uh put this poll up to add more coverage. Strictly speaking, we call it capacity. Um since they already have coverage from this site, it's just that it's not good coverage. So we want to make sure that we have better better
speeds, more reliable performance, and uh full-on 5G, which is what that Cband panel antenna is for. >> Okay. Anything from Alex? Hey guys. Now really if um we move forward, I'll be filing the paperwork
and and permit applications and all that. I I'll be working with Kevin on the specifics of of getting this to the finish line. >> Okay. Um I'm not going to go to council first. I'm going to go first to our professional, but I want to ask one question before I go to our professional
or our per attorney. Um Samantha, you stated that this d that this uh this is necessary because of the use that's occurring at the high school and the middle school, but specifically the high school. Was that correct? >> Yes, that's correct. More so the high
school than the middle school. But >> but if I'm not mistaken, um New Jersey has now instituted a no cell phone policy within the schools. Isn't that correct, Mr. Chen? >> That's right. So I wonder whether your data which you probably collected from
last year is gerine to the current situation. >> Well the data is aggregate from all usage over the past several years and projected forward. That being said we also have noticed in
the past that high schools and middle schools have lots of data usage immediately before and after school hours. So that is sort of the peak times we were designing for and presumably those would be times when the no the no phone rule would not apply because
students are are coming and going and getting picked up by their parents or going on school buses or what have you. And uh yeah >> okay that that uh that's that answers that question. Mr. Stenian. Um, can you
speak to uh what are the uh obligations, responsibilities and rights of the council in this regard? Mr. Jones has said a few things, but uh as our burough attorney, can you speak to uh uh what what what you feel the council should be
looking at in this presentation? >> Well, the my understanding there we have an easement on this property and a sidewalk. Yeah. uh as we as we do throughout the burrow and that Verizon's going to make the application to place
the pole within the scope of the easement which again that's going to get reviewed by um the building department that's going to get reviewed by the zoning official and everybody will make sure that it fits within there and then legally um we'll review the application from the legal perspective to make sure
that it fits within um the compliance that's required including the the the recent ruling that Mr. Jones uh reflected on or mentioned and you know and then we'll take it from there. I can't it's it would be too early for me to appine having just seen the location
of the property for the first time um as to whether this is you know I find that it's legally appropriate you know without looking into it further. >> Okay. Um if you might hopefully you realize what I'm doing is asking the questions the public will want us to be able to answer. So that's why I'm asking the questions that I am. The last
question I have to ask before I enter into the council is I'm looking at a uh Google um Google map uh image of the property and uh it is dated. It's 2018. Um and uh
there appears to be several trees. Is it uh are are you guys s are you planning to place it in such a way that it will not disturb the burrow's trees? Uh are you looking to get a permit to remove a tree? Where do you stand in the and
maybe uh the tree that is currently visible uh for 921 Willow Avenue is not current is not still there. But I'm wondering, you know, uh what have have you thought about this and and what what is your position? Uh Nate, you want to address that in
terms of the the existing trees? >> Thank you. I think you're muted. There you go. >> Sorry. Yeah, there we go. Um yeah, I think we are not in the area of the tree. We're s we're um in between right approximately in between the property line where the tree it
shouldn't affect the tree. >> Okay. because I'm looking at this and there's a pole across the street if I'm if I'm looking correctly. Um, and so there are wires running from the pole to the house. Um, and you're you're putting
it up on the opposite side of the current pole side, right? >> Correct. >> So, um, so you will be careful. I I assume that you will you can guarantee that you will your actions will in no
way um jeopardize the health of the tree or uh the services that the public is currently uh feeding to their homes. >> Yeah, they the Verizon uh Verizon telephone will set the poll so they will make sure to um comply with what we need
to when they go to set the poll there that we don't interfere with the tree or the wires. >> Okay. Actually, I have one last question. I thought this was the last. Uh, will you be uh will you be notifying the public so that they can uh opine or or weigh in on this? Uh, have you
reached out to the residents of the houses that will u see the construction? >> Uh, we have not mayor at this moment. Uh, what we do is we work within the rights of way the public as he mentioned Verizon
telephone is the public utility. uh and we work within the parameters of VZT and PSEG with regard to to these installations. Uh so we did not uh actually at this point reach out to any of the residents regarding this installation to answer your question.
>> Okay. And um will the power be fed from the underground? Are you going to need to open the street or will the power be fed from the power line across the street? >> It'll be fed overhead from across the street. >> Okay. All right. Um, council president,
do you have any questions? >> Sure. Thank you for your presentation. I do have an a question that mayor already asked, but I'm going to ask it again. So, when the work is done, the trees will be protected and will not be impacted. Yes or no?
>> That is correct. There is no plan to remove any trees and as it's designed, the current installation uh is planned to leave everything in place and not impact any of the existing trees or other vegetation. Thank you. Uh two more question if I can. Keep going. Uh just to be clear,
there's no cost in associated to the uh impacting the borrow for this work. Correct. >> Correct. >> All right. And the last one is have you considered doing a traffic assessment with the the the far the police department to understand whether that
would be obstructing any view on the road and if not would you do that? We would uh we would certainly again work with the public utilities with which do require such assessments when the situation is necessary on this
street. It probably wouldn't be but I could defer to our engineers who work directly with the public utilities and if necessary we would absolutely um perform that as necessary. >> I think that would be that we would appreciate that but personally I would appreciate that if that is considered in
the plan. >> Understood. >> Thank you. Councilwoman Molori. >> Uh, no, I don't have a question. Okay. Councilman Benson. >> Yeah. Um, you said that the it's going to be about 40 feet tall. Is that right?
>> The pole the pole itself will be about 38 and 1/2 ft tall and the to the top of the antenna will be 42 feet tall. >> And how does that compare to the current like electric poles that are there already? Like is it a lot taller? It's
the same size. Um, it's similar to ones in the area. >> Okay. >> All right. That's that's all I have for now. >> All right. Councilman Glass. >> Shocker. But I do have a few questions. >> So, yeah. What's our height ordinance
for residences? I think this is much higher than our height ordinance for residences. So, I don't know if anyone knows that off the top of our head their head, but I think it's in the water of 30 feet or 32 feet about for the top of
uh >> I I'm going to ask Mr. But I think uh it wouldn't apply because this is a utility perspective. >> Oh, perspective. >> 30 35 ft in a residential. Thank you. Thank you. >> Oh, I'm sorry. So this this is much
>> and um I'm wondering so what the distance of the RF signal what is it? And I'm asking cuz I'm kind of wondering if there's a re less residential area >> this could go in and if you guys looked
at for example New Jersey transit property or other more commercial or where there's more commercial or industrial use and that might work better instead of dropping a pole in front of someone's residence. Can you tell us what efforts you've made
in connection with trying to find an alternate less residential location? >> I'll defer to Samantha. If you could explain uh why this Did you hear that question, Samantha? >> I did. Yes. Um basically this is this is what we refer
to as a small cell. So we can sort of tailor the coverage footprint um to what we need. But usually it is about less than half a mile in radius. Um to go much further we would to cover further we would need a taller site with
less obstructions. Um and this area is almost is a lot of residential. So, >> what other sites did you what did you look at non-residential sites within a half a mile radius and can you give me
an example of some of those sites that you discounted and why? >> Uh I would have to uh get back to you on that um to get a full >> history but yeah we can do that. And I think, you know, the mayor asked an
important question. Um, and I think the way to answer it about capacity at the high school with the new restrictions on cell phone use now, uh, under state regulations is to answer
this question. Do you see a big drop in use during the summer months? >> We do see a drop of use in the summer months. In fact, I'm looking at some of the data right now. Again, I could see what I can package and deliver, but I'm
definitely noticing a spike today um between about 7 and 12 a.m. on the one sector that I mentioned was um running out of capacity. So, we do me we do see schools not do traffic during the summer months. Yes,
we see lots of increases in traffic in other areas during the summer months. Um we have a we have an entire small team working on the Jersey Shore for instance. Um >> so with this new Thank you Samantha. With this new ordinance, do you need to
re-evaluate your assessment with respect to capacity needs at the high school and the middle school? >> Um it couldn't hurt. I will take a look at how we we do have data from last year. I can evaluate see what times of day most
of the data tends to be and if the busiest hours are again before and after school and I can uh I will have to get back to you with you know hard data on that then the node would still be useful since we would need to address the coverage issues at basically when there
is during during the equivalent of rush hour on our cell sites which is I guess actually close to regular rush hour now that I think about it but Um, yeah. >> Terrific. Thank you,
>> Councilman Glass. You bring up a great point and toward towards one of your questions. I'm looking at the uh the B the Willow uh street is um is a dead end. It ends at the school property and there is a poll at the currently at the
end of the block. Um, have you when you when you get the information back from where uh Councilman Glass asked um about what Councilman asked Glass asked uh I'm wondering would would a uh if a poll
needs to go in uh and it can't go in a commercial area uh how do you or would you consider something less of uh intrusive say at the end of the block there is uh according to uh Google maps there there is a at the end of the block
that would not leave it directly in the middle but would not move it off too far from the middle school. Um, just something I wanted to piggy back on the great questions that Councilman Glass asked. Councilman, anything else? >> No. Thank you, Mayor. >> Councilwoman Darwal.
>> All right. All right. So, um, Kevin, thank you for your presentation and for your, um, your the answers of you and your team. uh what is it that you are looking for from us at this point? >> Uh what we would like uh and we
certainly will respond to your inquiries. You have some really good questions and we'll gather the data and the intel uh hopefully to satisfactorily answer your questions. Uh we would want ultimately uh should the council be satisfied with what we provide uh a
municipal consent. Usually that's done by way of a resolution uh or an ordinance, you know, permitting access to the right of way. Again, it's permitted by way of federal law. A lot of municipalities do it different ways. Uh, a simple way to do it is to pass a
no ordinance say that uh, assuming you provided that uh, Verizon meets certain FCC standards and I'll go through each of those and I'll with your council and I'll provide him with everything he needs uh, to to uh, vet that uh, that
you know access to the rightway is provided. Again, it also has to be in conjunction with approvals by the public utilities, which is Verizon Telephone or PSEG, as well as the your your local township police and fire. Uh because you do have equipment and antennas, you
know, throughout the municipality. >> Okay, Kevin, answer me this if you can. Uh what if the council chose not to do that? What course would you then take? >> If the council chose not to grant a resolution,
>> resolution or an ordinance? Yeah, if the council took no action in that regard, >> well, we would want to continue to try to convince you. Uh, I mean, there are other, you know, options. Uh, there really aren't any other small cell options. Again, we're working under the
constraints of the federal or, you know, the FCC order, the 5G order is what it's called. Uh, and this is typically how these are deployed. And we work, you know, Verizon's always a good neighbor. Again, I mentioned, you know, that they partner with the burrow on some of their first responder
services, the Verizon one talk feature. So, the the goal is to provide a service for that benefits everybody in River Edge and the goal is to work together with the council, you know, with the burough council uh to do so. >> Yeah. No, I'm I'm just uh trying to
understand uh how the council should uh digest what your what what your presentation and what our next steps would be. Um, for us, I I hope I'm not speaking out of turn for the council, but for us, in addition to all the information we've asked for uh before we
we have another meeting on this, uh, we would very much hope that uh you would do some outreach to the people of that block. Um, we represent those people and we feel that their voices should be heard. I don't think I've spoken out of time there. >> Mayor, I do have another question. I'm
sure my rates are my Verizon rates are going to go, >> right? >> Just a real quick one. Yeah. Um, so you're addressing a need associated with the public schools. I'm wondering if um you should have this conversation with
the public schools and if there's a location >> on the public school property instead of having this conversation with the mayor and council, you should be also having a conversation with the >> the school board >> with the BO because I'm seeing I mean obviously they
have property, >> right? >> Right. That was going to be my that was going to be my question. Also like >> I can address that. We we reached out to them with a couple of emails and phone calls. We have not heard back from them. As far as your question to the other
locations, we have looked at it. It's still in the residential area due to the capacity and the coverage. I see what you're talking about with NJ Transit off over there to the east. Um >> yeah, >> but that would take years. I'm just
being honest. Working with NJ Transit takes a long, long time. and it may not even help with the coverage and the capacity for the schools in that area. We would have to look at that. Um, as far as putting it on school district property, again, we've reached out to
them. We haven't heard back. Completely understand. This is the first day of school in New Jersey. My, you know, my daughter went today. Um, if you can push them, uh, my, um, coworker, uh, reached out to them. So
again, we we have tried to contact them as well to see if that is an option we can we can look into. >> Yeah, that might be a better option. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. >> So, um I I don't want you to think that we're um You're welcome, Councilman. Uh that we're um opposed to this or in
support of this. Uh we are we are reviewing uh your presentation, the first time we're hearing it, and uh we want to make sure that we u represent our constituents as well as possible. I know that there are many of them uh I'm
sure of the teenage age which would love better service at the high school and the middle school and uh perhaps there are also dead spots on Willow A uh and or slowdowns at Willow A. So maybe those residents would be in support of this.
Um so this is a this is a first meeting and we assume that you'll come back to us uh with the information and uh you know um and a review of our our requests >> charge now >> we will
yes >> and we will reach out to the school again we'll see if we get you know any response as we said our site acquisition team did reach out to them on numerous occasions but again if anyone on the council and maybe I do is through Ann or your attorney has a
direct contact with the school who maybe you know would be responsive whether that's a yes or a no either way we'd like to have them evaluate the possibility of it so we can get a definitive answer >> so I am a retired public school teacher and I can tell you that it's going to
take them about two weeks to get back >> not the best time right now I'm sure >> this is a very difficult time uh there are all sorts of logistical and uh curricul ulum based problems that uh you know crop up when the students come into
the building. So, but um you want to contact the superintendent uh would be the superintendent of the Riverdale Public Schools because it's a um it's a regional school between River Edge and Oddell. >> Um >> and um um
>> Okay. >> I would I would certainly send an email, but I would also contact the superintendent secretary if if you want a timely response by phone. >> Sounds good. We'll do. Thank you. >> One more question. >> Sure. Absolutely. >> Thank uh thank thank you for the
presentation. Just a quick question. Do you ever um do you ever um uh pay uh like institutions and so forth to put something like this on on their property? >> Yes. Sometimes if it's a small cell a
different type of installation not in a rightway but it's an installation on the actual building or a tower on the property. Sure. then we enter into a a lease agreement uh you know with the prospective property owner >> because you're thinking of Grace Lutheran. >> I am.
>> So uh one block maybe 50 yards from the current location you're talking about is Grace Lutheran Church, >> right? >> And uh if if you're looking to expedite this process, >> then you may wish to speak to Grace
Lutheran. Um, not that we wish to uh drag it out, but we just want to make sure that we represent our constituents. >> We we actually reviewed a possibility of a site, I believe, at 922 Fth Avenue, which is near near Grace Lutheran
Church. Um, Nate, could you share that that that map that we had because we did um Alex, if you could provide a little additional insight on that particular prospective site that we investigated. Well, we were still looking in the rightway for that. Um,
in front of the church. If if the church is another option, we can look at that. That is something internal we'll have to speak about. >> All right. Uh, we're we're not advocating for you to do this or anything else. We're just trying >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, completely
understood. We we it's just we'd like to be in the rightway. Um before going to private um not necessarily school districts again, that's a little different than than a a private landlord, but again, we tend to
start in the rightway before we go outside of that. We want to exhaust that option first. >> And I understand that. I'm just thinking that you um I think I I can't speak for the council. I can just speak for myself. I think uh putting the tower in
the rightway near the church might be a uh a more sensitive lo location than put it right in front of somebody's home. Um but I don't know if that's true. I don't know how the council would feel about that, but it may be something you want
to explore. It's not on private property, but uh it would uh there there is uh I'm looking at it right now on Google Maps. Uh there looks like there's a lot of opportunity there for uh perhaps u I don't know how the church would feel about that. Again, I'm not
advocating for that, nor is the council. We're just uh next time you come, I would like for it to be a productive meeting. >> We will investigate all of those sites and and come back with some additional information whether we rule the site out or have some additional information as
to prospective different locations. Okay, that's excellent. Uh, anyone else from the council wish to Councilwoman Darw. The church actually I mean just for the information the church actually runs a full-time uh school. >> Yes, I know that >> with a daycare that goes to the evening.
>> Yeah. So, if if Verizon wants to look at at that site, that's another site for them to look at. I'm just I'm personally if it was me and put it right in front of my house on a very residential street. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Uh that wouldn't go over too well,
I don't think. But uh putting it on a residential street that's or the fronting of a church or a business or a school, uh I think um we also want to be concerned about residents making sure
they don't have dead spots. Um so so we're just trying to be good neighbors with Verizon as well as protecting our residents, especially a a residential home. Understood. >> Okay. Um All right. Well, we uh Kevin,
unless there's something else, we thank you for coming and we look forward to you coming back. >> Thank you very much and thank you everyone for taking the time to hear our presentation tonight. We will be in touch. >> All right. Take care. >> Take care everyone. >> Take care.
>> I was thinking of the church. >> Okay. Could I have a motion and second from any member of council to open to the uh wait hold on there's no one here. Uh councilwoman Claudiana, will you see if there is anyone in the attendance? No. Since there is no one present, we
will not open to the public because there is no public here. Uh there is monthly reports land use board August 13, 2025 available through the clerk's office. We have resolutions 25-235 through we're just going to move them um
all and we'll have but we'll have 252 243 read into the record because we're going to do a um we'll do a um holding of the council and through 25243 is any member of council looking to pull
any of those out for a separate vote or do they have questions before we move it? >> I do. >> Go ahead. I just for the uh uh the public's benefit if uh Mr. Archell could uh explain a little about um
>> resolution 25-240 >> 40 correct please. >> Sure. And I welcome the burough clerk and burough attorney to chime in if I am missing something or I'm incorrect. Um, this is to authorize a refund, a partial
refund for the cannabis license sweet spot river edge in November paid for the full 2025 year because they expected to be heard at the state level in January and um
through no fault of anyone's own it wasn't heard until I think July or so. So because of that, they didn't fully use the license. And in our ordinance, we have language that if the license
isn't being used um by July, then the um the license fee for the remainder of the year is prrated. So since they prepaid um they are entitled to a refund and that is what this resolution authorizes.
>> Okay. Excellent. Very very good. Anything else? All right. Can I have a motion second 25-235 through 25-243? >> 242. >> No, we're going to do the whole thing. >> 43.
>> I need a second. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Can we have 25-243 read into the record for uh purposes of transparency? Payment of bills that a regular meeting of the mayor and council of the bor of riverage county of Bergen state of New
Jersey held on September 4th 2025 be it resolved that the mayor and council of the bor of riverage approved the following expenditures current fund funds 522,98959 general capital fund $100,000 385.75 grant fund 72,18.33
3 trust other $7,6167 developers escrow $4,460 and recreation trust $10,8745. some move. >> Okay, we are actually that one was read into the record for sake of transparency, but we're actually moving
all of the resolutions 25-235 through 25-243. If you need to abstain or vote no on any of them when your name is called, you can uh say yes to all, but you can use it as an exception. Uh, Madame Clerk,
roll call. >> Council President Monttoano Cohen. Yes, >> Councilwoman Maleri. >> Yes, >> Councilman Benson. >> Yes, >> Councilman Glass. >> Yes, >> Councilwoman Dario.
>> All right, very good. Um, new business. Is there any new business? >> Old business. Is there any old business? Um, okay. Uh, is there any public here? None remotely and none present. So we
don't need to open to the public. Uh council comments. >> I have a comment if I may. >> Absolutely. >> The library had the board meeting on Tuesday and u it was approved the uh narcom box to be placed at the
library. >> All right. All right. Excellent. Thank you for updating us on that. >> Can I update? >> Those are Buster boxes, right? >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. I I just ju just for the council to know I I asked my son who goes to Ruckers, do they have these? He
says, "Yes, they have these." And he says, "Anyone can go take one." And I said, "Are they gone?" And he said, "No." He said, "Uh, you know, they're there." So that alleviated some of my concern around people going in and just taking these $300. >> One of the board members uh said that at
college when the students go the first day, they actually have a training on this, how to use them. So yeah, that's true. So, I just thought that was interesting. >> I think it is. Yes. Any other member from council? All right. I I would like to say that by hook, by crook, uh we are
going to be in Burrow Hall on September 25th. Correct. >> The engineer um said that by midepptember they will be working with the construction official to obtain a temporary certificate of occupancy. >> Good. And um and I can't wait
personally. Um and uh we have uh just a reminder the public we have uh River Edge Day is coming up in not too far from now, right? >> November 5th. >> November 5th. >> October October. >> October 5th. >> October 5th. And we have uh 911 uh 911
uh memorial will occur at the um memorial site next to adjacent to the library. Um during that time um the um River Edge Farmers Market will um stop playing music and encourage people to
come over to the ceremony. We want to thank Lieutenant Semons and all the members of the police department for organizing this with our first responders. Uh always doing an outstanding job. Um and we invite the public to be present. Uh
>> six o'clock. >> Six o'clock. Six o'clock. Is there any others? Are we good with everything? >> Mayor. Mayor. >> Yes. >> I'm sorry to interrupt, but with the bill list, I believe Pretty was supposed to recuse from all the recreation payments. I I didn't hear her say that.
>> Didn't see the gentleman on there. >> Are there any on there? >> I believe so. Yes. >> All right. Do we have to do the whole roll call over? >> No. >> No. >> No. No. >> And she just recuse herself at this point? >> Yes. Councilwoman Jaral, if you
>> recuse myself from all the bills related to recreation. >> Excellent. Good. Does that s satisfy? Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. Great. Are we good with everything else? All right. This has been very productive. Thank you all.
Could I have a motion and second to close to the public? So move. >> Second. >> All in favor, please say I. I. >> Thank you all and good night.