and call to order may I have a motion to come out of a close session and go into open public again have a second no second roll call committee women and pachy yes committee woman ARA yes Deputy
Mayor Miller yes committee May trinsky mayor George CLL yes may you stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in a moment in silence please our PL Al to the flag of the United States of America to the for stands
Nation indivisible jusice for thank you all righty here we go any correspondence Michaela n all
righty any report Mr Pinto uh I I do have it later on mayor we put it under discuss after discussion okay with that okay so we're going to start our discussion uh is not appr I'm sorry approval of the agenda may I have a motion may have a
second a second roll call committee woman of Pachi yes committee woman ARA yes Deputy Mayor Miller yes committee man trinsky yes and mayor yes approved okay so let's go on to discussion do you want to go first or
sure sure mayor I will um I know it's come up here for years in reference to the billboard and the access that we have to the two signs one on 17 North one on 17 South and one on the faces Route 80 um eastbound I was finally able to track down an actual copy of the agreement uh
took a lot of work but we got it but a couple years ago I had reached out to the predecessor of Clear Channel who now owns those signs in reference to renting out space at the time I said hey would you be willing to find us you know an Advertiser see you have they're like
we're struggling to find our own so it kind of fell into a dead space it's since come up again hey can we monetize that billboard and looking at this agreement there's nothing stopping us from maybe posting an ad in the Y town or the newspaper on our website circulating around our friends and
neighbors and businesses here in town and come up to the number of what we think it might be worth and we can absolutely just send the um creative as it's called in the industry to Clear Channel and they will post it the only thing we're prohibited from and I know this from when we do our Public Safety
announcements there could be no cannabis leaves um and they they prefer to show no people not drinking alcohol so there would be some restrictions but I don't think any of our businesses are going and the Cannabis indry is actually prohibited from advertising anyway so um we start take you know take a look at it
start talking about what number we think it's worth what it might be valued at I will reach back out to our sales excuse me who happens to be a former dare student of mine lives right here in town um from Clear Channel and see if he can provide me some guidance we'll go from there so we have to see what the um
going rate is is the best way of putting it if you could possibly report that back to the committee yeah I'll get it to you soon and then we probably we'd have to do a resolution on that to approve the the monetary rate for it yes and then um with the from the council then
he then you can then put it out there yes and and you know I know some people might be concerned in the audience it does not prohibit us from emergency access so at any time in that settlement agreement it clearly states that um should the police fire OEM need to get something up on there this wouldn't
prohibit that we would make that part of the agreement with the advertiser as well just so you know we would point that to that close so there would be a designated any questions so there would be a designated individual within the resolution that we pass every year as to who would communicate to put the emergency uh communication out got
perfect that's why it would change for Resolutions of an ordinance right so every year so great any other question just just a followup um the settlement in on March 22nd 2013 with
Allied developers I have the actual agreement and I mean it it it is clear that we have eight uh 38 second turns that were afforded to the township um they're available to the township as follows one turn on each side of the two signs
facing on the proposed Route 17 location right a total of two turns and one turn on either of the two signs faces on the proposed Route 80 location the face for Route 80 location turn for the Township's Choice the township will be
able to use these turns first and foremost for any public service announcements if that type of use for the three turns are not necessary then the use shall be for any lawful purpose including but not limited to advertising on behalf of the Township emergency
notices and for private advertisers as Monet as monetizing opportunity for the Township in the event the turns are sold um in the event that turns are sold but are ultimately required for emergency uses the township will be given the opportunity
to on tan emergency basis use these terms for set emergency purposes so there's there's a whole interpretation and there's part of the agreement I could forward that to you if you I believe we that toil part of your um receive that within
your current agenda So currently I I guess my question is currently to to date we don't have any we have not generated any Revenue out of those signs right correct um and for us to do that I would believe we have to be in we have
to be in conversation with the the sign owners right so not necessarily um I I I spoke to a sign owner who actually is no longer involved in these signs but is very familiar with them and he said look it's just a matter of you sending them the creative he goes
whatever agreement you make on the side it's the town's prerogative so if we sell it for a dollar we sell it for a th000 we sell it for 4,000 whatever it may be we just send the creative to Clear Channel and as per this obligation they have to put it up on those three eightc flips so they're just looking
all they know is that we're sending them the loop of what we want up there and that's what goes up there and then we become the I guess we become the business agent at that point at that point yes okay okay great sounds good to me let's
make some let's look at the next one which is home approvals no which is the um re-evaluation that is coming up Mr Pinto would you like to speak about that yes I would mayor and as everybody's been dreading that time has finally come 2026 we're mandated by the state to have
our revaluation here in Rachel park it has been 10 years since uh the last one um and our tax maps have been finally digitized and approved by the State Board of Taxation so I've contacted the uh company um it was actually a contract
that the town instituted back in 2021 uh the town never funded it back in 2021 uh we we are since taking care of that there'll be $190,000 honoring the same rate from 21 which is great for us because let's face that nothing has ever stayed constant from that time but that
this price has I've already spoken to the project manager as well as members of his staff we'll be providing them with 21100 envelopes part of your agenda you'll see there's a brochure and a sample letter that will get sent to every taxpayer I ask that every Committee Member review it let me know if you want to make any changes it'll
then be put on our letterhead putting those envelopes and they will mail it out um and then they will be providing us a list of the people that will be going door too we will do our background check via the police department issue them Town issued IDs and we'll go from there and hope to have this done by
October November the latest and 25 for the 2026 tax year so um this will be very soon that'll will be starting my understanding that we we are underway mayor so in discussion I had a discussion about this with um um the
administrator and one of the things I asked is do you have to let them in your home do you have to let them come and do the assessment of your home and from what I'm understanding is that it's probably better if you do because from what I'm understanding they can tax you
at the highest rate if you're not permitted into the home now of course everybody you know has the right to say who can come in their house or not but you know that's kind of the message I got um that it's probably
better and if they're not if you're not home that they could dele something on your door and you could schedu time so they can come back I cor Mr that's correct they'll they'll assess the value of your home at the highest possible value and you will also be prevented
from filing a tax appeal you'll file it but it will be dismissed based upon your failure to allow them to come in the house so there really is no downside because if you want to file an appeal the first thing they're going to say is you didn't let us into the house and the tax board
is going to say you're appeal is dismissed unless you let them into the house and you're going to be assessed at a much higher value than you probably would have had you'd let them into the house so there's no benefit to the homeowner not to allow them in so what if they are are the
renters what's the obligation there to rent the home well well the the renter cannot refuse access to the to the home and again as you stated though you will be given notice of the uh when they'll be coming and if that day doesn't work then
just reschedule it but the obligation will be on you to reschedule if you cannot make the date that they provide you notice of when they'll be doing the inspection for the assessment very good okay so everybody will be notified with a letter prior to
it starting yes and and just one other comment because this always almost always happens I was I served on the tax board and the the common complaint after a reevaluation is everybody thinks because the value of the house went up which is going to happen because you know if you're reading the newspapers
values of real estate have gone up significantly especially if the last time you had a reevaluation was 10 years ago that doesn't mean your taxes are going up that amount so let's say your assessed value goes up 50% that doesn't mean your taxes are going up 50% because
more than likely every property owner's assessment is going up close to 50% so don't overreact to the assessment you you want to wait till they call what is this tax rate and then when the tax rate is struck you multiply that by your assessment and that's what your taxes
will be and one other uh if I can give one further guidance if you disagree with the assessment try to schedule a meeting with your assessor without even filing an appeal because sometimes mistakes are made and they're willing to resolve issues without you even having to go
through the process if in fact they believe a mistake uh was made in your assessment okay very good thank you any other questions any other questions on that no great let's move forward website so I see this for discussion I think Mr
Miller you want to start off on it yeah definitely uh as Lea's on to uh digital Communications um one thing I would really like for this governing body to get done this year is to uh Revitalize revamp our Township websites uh if you
go to our Township website right now it's extremely outdated uh there's just scattered links on the homepage uh it's not a modern Municipal website that we see in our neighboring towns and I think that the residents deserve a great web
page um like just as the other towns do have uh the only unfortunate thing is it's very costly uh to revamp a website like that so when we were uh when the mayor was building this agenda I brought this up to her and actually triggered an
idea for the mayor so I will invite you to speak on it thank you thank you for the invitation I I know that the school wants to do a lot of or try to do more shouldn't say a lot but try to do more shared services I did speak to the uh
administrator on this and maybe we can somehow um look into a shared service you know maybe we could I don't know file the lot if if we can just you know uh some input or um activity from their it person I'm just throwing out some ideas there
um and this could help both of us right so maybe we can look at something to that fact because they do from what I in my opinion have a very good it person and that might help us cost-wise we have to pay a little we have to pay a little but if you look at Mr Miller is correct
if you look at our website it's it's kind of everything's all over the place and there's not anything categorized I happen to look at different towns and how it's categorized and it makes it much easier to to go into that and find out what you may be
looking for and that will help in the future so that's just my suggestion I don't know if anybody else has a stdl that we use they offer services also for the website I know what the cost is so I I've spoken to several other administrators and costs range anywhere
from 30 to 70 to $80,000 depending that's a lot of money pil definitely cheaper than that yeah go so we'll reach out to sdl and we'll see if we can get a quote um inter the inter I I I just I was on you
know emailing with Dr Doo today in regards to one of the portions of the shared service agreement and that's it's actually on my handwritten list mayor uh to talk about the website and use of their it person in exchange for some services that we can offer yeah maybe I mean you know we can we can see how we
can work because we like to work with the school and you know both help out each other right any anybody in the community we' like to work with anybody else one of the things yeah I was looking at that first excuse me m
sorry I just want to see the cost now compared to what we get yeah before we make a decision our website website now is probably under $4,500 Yeahs for a yearly for that's for a
yearly um correct yeah Mr Mr J did you want to say that's okay uh on the um on the topic of the website one of the things I think that's really important is for us to have links on there and we talked about this starting a database
for anything that is land use involved in and approved in this in this town any Resident should be able to go to that website be able to click on a link and say hey that property over there the Gulf Station at whatever address it is look it up and see all the approved resolutions through the time periods
that that existed so they can look up and say why is there a tanker there in the middle of the afternoon a resolution says that it shouldn't be there it should only be there in between uh you know after hours between 8 and 8 in the morning overnight cuz a couple times things like that have happened in town
where I've seen it and I said gez I wonder what that I remember remember being on a board and hearing about it and seeing it but I don't remember the details and it's it's a burden on the on the administration here to be able to have to you know somebody call hey I need that resolution I that everybody
should be have access to that everybody in the town everybody in the public and I think we've been doing ourselves the service to the town if we don't put a link on there and start a database current moving forward I know it's hard retro to get things up there but at least let's start current and put everything on well you know that's a
great idea Matt but we have to and I'm going to be honest with you let's let's work out logistics first and then we can talk about what we can and can't do on there logistically and financially right so we have to look at all of that and you have a great idea with this I like the idea too I I think you know all of
us would like something like that especially for the community but we also have to look at what we have now is kind of a The Way We The Way We record things now though moving forward will make it easier so however we're going to record things on the land use board that's up
to the land use plan right however that's going to be recorded though there should be some concern and some you know continuity between this board and the land use board saying that we're going to move in that direction let's make sure that we do things and in a proper
way that easy right again that stuff the logistics behind it we have to all work out but let's start from the beginning and see if we can get some some kind of agreement or some kind of financial right that's what we have to look for and I know um Mr Miller is going to look in and keep keep an eye on how this is
going to move forward yeah just speaking to what uh Mr trinsky is saying I mean the dream of an AI power-based uh search option with organized folders uh and categories as you're saying there I mean I I I would hope they would be able to do that maybe it's uh maybe it's a dream
but that would be wonderful and obviously very convenient to the residents and taxpayers of our community yeah so that's great anybody else no let's move forward then so professional labor agreement Township work so I
brought this forward to our administrator uh to our Council um and I'd like to speak to the rest the committee about this um this would be under this um professional labor or they call pla it would be for um anything
over 5 million uh project in the town uh would be Union work and or um prevailing wages right now Union and prevailing wages are at the same same price category so the same range um this
is something that I look like to see past under an ordinance moving forward right now we don't have any project that is over 5 million but we don't know what the future holds sometimes labor work you know from what I know cuz I was you
know in a union union work like that you um you can get things on time things are done correctly and sometimes it works for the betterment of the town in my opinion um I'd like to see if we can move forward with some kind of language
on this to do an ordinance and there's nothing at this point that I mean even our Pump Station I think it's 4.5 I don't think it's going to go any higher at this point but we don't know what what we're going to find um but it would be over that threshold of the 5 million now there is language that is
written and um a lot of you know there's a lot quite a few towns that Ed something like this I know um our attorney and Mr stino represented another town not too long ago that just did this also so it's something that I think is good
for this town we are a blue collar town in my opinion I grew up here um and I still think that we are in that that category we have a lot of teachers and firemen and police officers and nurses and I can go on and on so um a lot of
people are a union and um to me it makes sense that's how I look at it so any questions I have a question prevailing wage isn't that for municipality work state work all public all project so wouldn't our our projects automatically
default to prevailing wage like when we were talking about certain projects we were going to do for moving our building that would have been a prevailing wage job right everything's prevailing wage but you can put language in that the quest of prevailing wage is the same basically as the union wage that the
contractor uh would use the union LA because it's not costing him any more money because prevailing wage you'd have to pay prevailing wage anyway corre so you can put language into specifications on projects that are less than 5 million that would encourage the contractor
use through the through the chair mayor and not to be the dead horse but I asked that exact question of the person we were speaking with I said I just need to know is there any increased cost to the municipality by the use of this and he says no the only thing you're going to see is increased quality of Labor he
goes the unions do their homework they they won't claim to send you a journeyman or an apprentice they will tell you when they're using a journeyman or an apprentice or an actual union worker he goes and you will know the quality of the staff that's doing the work so and again the wage again it all
statutorily falls into it falls into place and you know union labor tends to be uh a higher quality outcome right so if it's okay I'd like to see if we can um have our attorney write up something for it and I
see Mr donatell smil I'm sorry what what's driving this what project is driving this to come up now it there is no project right now for over 5 million okay what's driving has to come up what's driving it is my looking forward because I was thinking to the fact of at
one time you were looking to do a new municipal building that would have been quite quite a bit right I believe and it's my opinion as Mr Pinto just said you get quality work with labor you know when they're going to with Union rather you know when they're going to be there
how it is um and it follows through there's nothing in particular except it came to me that we don't have anything for that so I think moving it forward would this limit how many bids come in if we're just restricting no because
they any contractor can employ Union uh anybody eligible to good on public STW right okay is is capable of using union labor okay no one your signator have the sign of it being signator for the unions okay okay good yeah I'm totally in
support you supported it absolutely everybody else supported it the taxpayers with a $5 million public project would want the most transparency the most experience and the highest quality of work the best work on yeah good okay great so that's move forward any questions I War
okay all right Dean sustainability New Jersey sure I want to thank Mr Warren again for reaching out I think on behalf of the shade tree commission and the environmental committee um forwarded this to me sustainable Jersey is a network and basically a movement of municipalities schools and school districts uh working collectively to
bring about a sustainable New Jersey uh acting together with State agencies nonprofit organizations foundations Academia and Industry sustainable Jersey research is best practice for what communities could and should do to contribute to Su a sustainable future the program culminates in prestigious
certification Awards to municipalities and schools that have documented meeting a set of rigorous standards there is no cost for us to join it would require a resolution on behalf of this committee saying that we're dedicated to this I again have spoken to other administrators they've seen no harm no
foul um in in doing this again it's just a matter of it will actually Aid our grant writers and ourselves um in listing us whatever our ranking may end up being whatever progress we make uh it does assist in getting some grants great thank you Mr Warren for presenting this
um any other questions on it uh Dean I think that I did read as well that we could potentially earn immediate points for things that we've already done within the last few years so I know we had that smoking ban on public property so we could already start re occurring points the environmental commission our
robust recycling program that could already get us a really great Head Start awesome once you you know once this committee passes the resolution I will absolutely go ahead and start with the application and uh I'm sure they'll ask for some of those those things and we'll get it to them awesome yeah do you want to try to look
forward at the next meeting for a possible resolution on it would that be agreeable yes yes I have majority saying yes great yes thank you all right now moving forward administrator's report all right thank
you mayor so again we talked about the tax maps uh but real quick again we're moving forward the revaluation process in contract and again I please ask that you review the brochure and sample letter to make sure it is satisfactory we will be mailing those out to Residents as far as a tax assessor as we
all know Mr chai is retiring as of March 31st I've conducted uh we advertised for the physan received seven applications I conducted interviews and I've come up with uh some who I believe should be the successor his name is Edmund Brown you should all have Michaela handed him out copy of his resume just to give a little
background he's worked for the actual contractor as a project manager and that's the contractor that's doing the current revaluation he worked on the Rosell Park man um last revaluation as project manager so he's very familiar with the township uh he now works for six other municipalities he'd be given one of those up to come here but he does
have 11 years of assessor experience he's ready to obviously started our current salary less than three months that salary hasn't changed for the ordinance of $1,575 91 less than three months that Mr Tai has received he would be available
though on Mondays from 4:30 to 6:30 but could attend the meeting on a Wednesday if needed after 7 p.m. he'd also Avail himself during daytime uh between 2 and 2:15 with other days to meet with any Resident the tax collector or others that need to speak with him and he does
he's always available by phone and email as well he comes highly recommended by several of his other PE including our retiring assessor who actually said you can't go wrong with him so I will hopefully have a resolution for March 26th with a start date of April 1st so he just we see and he said he's going to
be coming in a meeting with our outgoing assessor anyway prior to even being compensated so he's being brought up to date on everything as of now cor he will be once I call him tomorrow to say that you folks are agreement that we put a resolution offer tomorrow okay it'll be
kind of a conditional offer based on that and I may a little out of order here I apologize didn't number my pages tonight uh the psng efficiency grant program is 99% complete I think there may be one thermostat they owe us then coming back to do but that's our updated boilers are highly efficient updated
boilers and AC units all with a new Wi-Fi thermostats they've actually added several thermostats around the building uh to help with our efficiency because again we were heating rooms because they didn't have their own thermostat and yet the person didn't even want to heat but because the thermostat was in the library the building department was
being heated so we we've kind of tackled some of those things so I hope to see a reduction in our energy usage because as this committee knows for those of you that have sat with me during the budget proposal uh PSG is projecting at least a 16% increase in their prices uh the
brick RIS on the plum station uh you have a resolution tonight on uh for a site inspection and Survey to be conducted to make sure that there's no surprises basically in the soil and the area where the new stations to be built we did pay the $7,000 D stream encroachment permit so we're good on
that regard so progress there we're moving forward on this project we were finally going to see the new pump station we're heading that direction back to the 2223 open space Grant the mayor and I had a um an occasion to walk Carlock field not only to look at the
work being done but to look what we could do for an upcoming Grant period I'll talk about at the moment but the shed old shed has been removed construction's underway of the new walkway retaining wall footings for the Pavilion delivery is still expected late this month the synthetic bot ball courts work is underway trying to do that first
because they understand the inconvenience to our residents not having playground access while that's done and they're nearing the completion of that which will allow at least the work to only block off the right to the side as you walking by H Hall and not to playground so hope to get that done sooner than later some changes as to
materials the manufacturer no longer makes the same color benches so we went with an all brown rather than a vanilla and green because they're no longer available I think the Brown's going to look right down there anyway um we've also been working with uh one specific neighbor who encroached upon Town
property he was very agreeable and he's worked with us several times because as the survey kept showing our property down there is a lot wider and deeper than we originally thought we've helped uh move him move some of the debris that he's AC crewed over the years as well as his fence excuse me he's very happy
obviously there's a new fence going in along that portion anyway that's a home on theme Avenue um we also located more space behind where the shed used to be or the garage or the the weigh-in station for those of us that played back football back in the day um and there's probably a good 10 to 15 extra feet back
there we're going to widen the beds widen the stone wall um but still keep a lot of that space the DPW well code enforcements already been down there to speak to the residents about some of the the items that have been dumped on our property hopefully they're going to be removed the DPW will work um with the contractor clearing that area and as we
look forward again I'll talk about the new Grant I think we'll be able to put up a couple of sheds down there for soccer and for some of the other sports to get some of the materials out of how um it's basically like wow we just picked up a whole bunch of property so I'm glad the mayor was there to walk along and uh hold the hold everybody's
feet to the fire um I said I'm a little out of water I apologize so the Bergen County open space grant funding for 2025 um again the mayor and I along with
Dave Brown and Ker's engineering walk the entire Carlock field confle uh complex we saw many items that are in conflict many items and issues that we want to address such as the lack of an adaa play area the issues this ons saafe issues with the playground surfaces um
and the possibility of the one wall along the first Baseline of the softball field closest to Hon Hall um kind of leaning and looking like it's you know it's the original wall from when the mayor and I were playing down there and Sligh riding uh so they will be sending their structural engineer to look at that make sure that it's
not um an Integrity issue and hopefully not but if it is we can make it part of this grant we'll be getting a letter of intent together and applying for that Grant basically Falls in Municipal Park Improvement program with the focus on repairing and adding to the playground area Carlock as well as several additions of
score maybe a scoreboard expansion of security fencing leveling off the asphalt area by H Hall and the wall as I just mentioned as well as the playground surface that is in dire need of replacement repair and again adding some of those adaa compliant features um and again just the playground surface alone
I have two estimates that Dave Brown pained um you're looking at between 257 and 340,000 just for those so just so everybody has an idea Howard Avenue National watermain is going to be continuing working the San and rep reining the sanitary sewer system next
week they will provide 48 hours notice when in that exact date is confirmed possible once again hand out the notices I'm sure Michaela will get it on to social media we'll get it up on the website as well um and these are the last items to be clear on a project absent of any remaining punch items that Dave Brown may have
the pavement resurfacing specifications for Howard Avenue are finally being finalized we'll be ready to schedule bid dates shortly I hope to have that for next meeting for sure I want to get that done sooner later and again that's from patent Court to James that we approved them to write up those bid specs um and
I'm working with the CFO on a bond ordinance for remaining Street and road projects which will include the remainder of Howard Avenue so all of Howard Avenue is going to be repaved sometime uh this this spring um and that's through a c BBG Grant as well as portions of the Dan for Dan Street under
an NJ do Grant roell Avenue um which for Hassel so I in looking at those handicap ramps Unfortunately they fell outside the scope of this project as for the county they're too far removed from the county intersection so they belong to the township however they assured me
when they move towards the expansion of Rell Avenue they will probably be included also looked at the drainage issue ball engineering went up there along with the county engine up at Peak street they're looking at maybe grinding some uh surface if not adding a um a new
retention pit Andor a new storm drain but again that promise comes once they do the widening of roal avue the project I'm to speak of now is the area south of lot Lane up toake Street basically just a resurfacing as this committee may recall we had an issue uh down from 369
roal Avenue to homeowners backyards were being flooded there were sink holes being created ended up thank you to our DPW like James and Dave Brown discovered that it looked like a plug in an old nowhere mapped excuse me um an abandoned storm drain line was actually going
between those residents home nobody knew was there it wasn't on any survey but the county has addressed that since the in the the past two rainfalls that we had that were pretty severe not one drop of water was in those residents backyard so the county again very responsive in handling that but during that time Dave
Brown discovered several issues one being from 369 Ro Avenue down to theme Avenue again I apologize um they are absolutely going to address that that's going to be happening in the next two weeks unfortunately their bids going out to their contractors they need to work at
least eight hours what I was able to work out was look don't interrupt my morning rush hour at least start after 8:30 so everybody's in the school and you can work till 4:30 but again there'll be police officers detours in place to help with that uh traffic coming out and lots of times they say
they want to work till 4:30 and they bang out they work and six to seven hours are out of the way anyway but contract they can't work less than 8 hours as per the county contract so they hope to complete the work in less than a week time and that's just to upgrade the um again that drainage pipe issue that
from 369 roal Avenue down to theme Avenue and again we've had ponding of water at theme and this should help with that uh milling and Paving then of that entire section from lot lane or just south of lots Lane they kind of want to tie it into closer to Oak Treet but they won't commit at this point but I think
we might get that uh should occur soon after the work and they're they're they're predicting uh April Fool's Day so read into that as much as you like but they're saying by April first um couple more things and it's been a busy busy couple of weeks mayor
Senior Center upgrades we you know difficulty still in getting flooring material from our vendors delayed the project but what we started to do despite and that's more of the expert that I am I always say I wanted to get the floors in first because I don't want them ripping up Cove molding and ripping the brand new sheet rock and paint but
they assure me they won't do that so the makeover in the painting of the room will begin next week um and the new microphone and receiver is slated to be installed at March 19th but as soon as we get those flooring materials we're being told now early to mid April we'll schedule it I know the library has a lot of events in there and we'll try to
inconvenience people as least as possible but finally the makeover of the senior center is happening uh on a kind of a bad note but thank goodness he wasn't hurt our poor code enforcement officer was stopped in traffic when his vehicle was rear ended
um the vehicle has about $4,500 worth of damage as per our adjuster it is going to be repaired our Township deductible is$ 2500 the driver that hit Mr warnett who again thank goodness suffered no injuries was issued four summonses by the police department however and
unfortunately here one of those was for uninsured vehicle but hopefully it was just a lack of not having the card and the offices are following up um and I think that's all I have great thank you thank you you anybody else
anything so I know um there's been a couple of concerns about certain areas here on fa street that that may not look um presentable I believe um Dan you will follow up on already have perfect thank you so
much all righty so we're going to go to uh new business and Miss Michaela would you please put in this is the uh this is the resolution Township of roell Park resolution 25100 um a resolution appointing a land
use board secretary would you please read that motion uh mayor judge gr ask for a motion to walk on resolution appoint boort secretary resolution number 0251
00 um may I have a motion for that please I'll make the motion I'll second so in a description of this um right now it looks the appointment would be um Michael Giuliano Michael works in the office here um and the
salary at this point would be 6,500 now that's a savings because I believe it was 10,000 for the two boards for secretary and now this is little over $4,000 savings so this is the um land use board secretary now at that time they could they vote on this land use
board also votes on it and can make a decision but for right now this is going to be appointed um that's way we looking at so may I have a motion I'm sorry may I have yes roll call please committee woman pachy yes committee woman Ora yes
Deputy Mayor Miller yes San trinsky yes and mayor do yes okay so would you ask for the motion Miss Michaela for yes Mr twinky Mayor Jo asks for a motion to appoint the following member enumerated
below Matthew chinsky as class three land use board member with said term expiring 1231 2025 I'll make the motion I'll second may have a second second I have to okay roll call please committee woman aichi yes committee woman ARA yes
Deputy Mayor Miller yes Comm trinsky oh really yeah you can't do that yeah okay and yes yes of course all right next we have I have a motion to open to the public I'll make the motion may have a
second I'll second all in favor okay so we're open to the public now okay I can just go over the rules so again uh this may be redundant for those of you have coming to the meetings so each person that wishes to speak if you can please State the name and the town
that you reside in the a lot of time is 3 minutes when there's approximately 30 seconds left I will let you know the mayor has the discretion to allow you to go beyond to 3 minutes any statements or questions that you have if it requires a
respon responds or we're capable of responding the mayor will designate the appropriate person to respond or May respond herself to any questions or statements that you make thank you Mr Warren hi hi it's Michael Warren 181 West older Street I just have two items
one about the Billboards um would the township be able to share with uh the public in some way um when you say send the creative can you uh give you like um the type of Graphics that
theboard company requires yeah simple enough yeah so they need a PDF file do they need a vector file so most of the time it's a 100 by 400 or 110 by 200 because there's two different dimensions but I can it's simple up and it could be
simple jpeg okay jpeg be good so um if you email me tomorrow actually I'll send it to you right now okay I don't want to call I just ask because um I'm thinking know that you mentioned earlier that a lot of the township the police the
omm um and other entities may use that board you know um i' would like to ask the township committee to consider expanding the use to other groups in town I'm thinking access for all I'm thinking chain Tre commission I'm
thinking uh Recreation can use that billboard to promote something that they want to do um there's no sale happening uh at that moment in time um this way you know uh
we can maybe share with more people driving around town oh my gosh I didn't know we had access for all doing XY andz or Recreation doing some other event right um I think that'd be helpful I also ask you to consider uh if you would
come up with a rate for 501 c3s I I know of one that may want to purchase a spot on the billboard um just to advertise so uh it's a we are a nonprofit so just to
consider I got it um so uh with that my second question is for Dean if that's okay sure Dean uh at our next shade tree meeting we're going to be discussing aror day which would be an awesome thing in put the billboard um but um to
purchase trees with the remaining budget money from last year do I contact you or Dave or how do we get that motion to purchase a couple trees for spring planting until a new budget's made and grants start coming in we do have some money left over I know
yeah we do have some money left over as well as there's some money in capital Improvement line we put money for streets and trees last year as well um get your wish list to Dave and I only because Dave is more familiar with the yeah no we' been talking about the trees that we like that are appropriate we've been
taking the core thing awesome and da then the requisition request you know we s we'll send it to finance it comes to me I'll review it as long as I confirm the funds are there we'll do a purchase order and get it done okay and you you don't have to wait for these meetings to ask me these
questions okay perfect can I ask a question not to interrup you I'm sorry and we also have the beautification F that's be my question I read M as well can they use the beautification Mone AB some of thaty and we did receive the $10,000 no from okay contribution is
here too they have that you have that fund too then yeah I just to make sure what the process is we know right read my mind it's kind of scary and I think that's thanks to the sustain Jersey I think that'll be a good
program for the town to enter into and I also 30 seconds yes kind of put people they put towns or or schools ahead of the curve when it comes to Grant so we'll see what we can do sounds good look forward to working
with me that's great anybody else from the public please so far ask a couple quick questions uh since the meetings next week will you be appointing menus I will be doing it right after this right after open the agenda I'll be doing it okay
and is there a reason why um between the different resolutions we used to have at least online an explanation of the different resolutions and one I'm Notting any Michaela is working on you know getting through everything right now so if you can excuse that we'll have
it hopefully the next time then would you be able to explain possibly what the property maintenance orance will be and one the resolution on volunte positions so the chair mayor I can pleas
sure so the first one I believe is the lead inspection ordinance um our code enforcement officer Don waret went through the training to be a visual lead paint inspector I know that whenever a home is sold that's a requirement or you can hire somebody our rates are a little
bit more um competitive and cheaper than the the outside businesses as well as we're required anyway somebody who does bring in an outside business still has to pay us to pay the state a fee we can collect that fee and do the same service not so we we wanted to make sure the fee schedule was listed so that way people
know it hadn't been it's being updated uh the second one you asked about was a volunteer position so back in December yeah I'm sorry no go ahead mayor oh no no go ahead a resident had reached out to me asking to volunteer in town hall uh she stated she had come from a financial background so I forwarded to the CFO and to our tax collector at the
time they expressed no interest with the current change in in the U clerk's office and the need for some filing skills and some help in there I reached out I had Michaela reach out to this woman kind of speak to her and see if she'd be willing to come help in the clerk's office with filing maybe helping
us catch up on back minutes that are uh need to be typed out and she was more than willing to do so so it's strictly volunteer there's no payment there's not even a letter of uh internship or anything like that required and she will work basically at our on you know my will whether or not you know once
Michaela says I I have she's done with everything or I still need her we we'll work with this woman on that thank you I and we're willing to take any volunteers any volunteers want to come forward me just to add anybody that wants to getting up and running with the
community wel Community I do have a list of you wouldn't believe how many towns houses have been sold in town and I have now great so anybody did I not send some people to you did I not um anybody who know of anybody who wants
tote to be on the committee okay but anybody else I just didn't tou the listen volunteers we appreciate every every volunteer I me walking around town and put things on people I know that there's been a lot of change over and I appreciate you know
everything that you're doing to help these people no I believe it yeah I believe many houses sold in thank you thank you if I may mayor Diane as far as the welcome committee bags go Michaela is waiting on one last
thing what is it I actually at 430 today got an email that it was approved so ordering it this week so the police foundation have because they wouldn't honor a purchase order wouldn't honor that price so the police foundation also 501c3 looking for billboard space By the way um
just kidding Michael we we will donate those bags to the to your project and to the township on our behalf no y so we we got them for that price because we do have a credit card through the foundation um and yesterday I was fortunate enough to receive a $10,000 donation from a city of hackensac
Resident who refuses to be recognized but I'll recognize him outside of this forum yeah very nice very happy thank you thank you thank you thank you anyone excuse me please thank you's not on I'm sorry is it on I don't leave it on
because the thank you I'm samanthaa from Ral Park I just wanted to De clear verify on the use of Carlock um field and the playground during the summer um with all of the updates coming really excited to
see but from my understanding we can't like use the area because of the summer camp is that correct right so the summer camp has a restricted area at that time there's I believe it's from 8:30 to 430 right 8:30 to 4:30 and that's the
children that are there um at the summer camp and so they try to keep it contained right we want to make sure everybody's safe and everything else so that's why it's kind of left that way but also in the summer after 4:30 you know it's late till 8:39 and and we're
going to now have um not only the Bachi but we're having the water what is that called Spray Park spray park park whatever you want that would be pretty Co be accessible during the day to Res not day camp now I think that we're looking at day camp at the end of June
which will go then to the end of August the 27 so at that time no we we don't permit that because we have to keep the children safe there also I understand but on like another note there are a lot of residents with young children that would love to do things in our town
during the day with them and it's wonderful that you're bringing these things to our town especially that spray park we can only use it during the summer months and weekends it's it's open you can use it that to and I don't know the proximity of where you live but there is also a playground area of at
Matthews field and that's that's open and then the County Park area at Howard uh hopefully soon another one I won't go into that yet but um and and and I hear you that's been codified as an ordinance limiting it to day camp and again I sit here as your police chief as well
probably for 25 years at least yeah okay it's a long time I know I understand what I was just wondering if there are any any ways around it like even like part of the day that could open a residence with a pass or something no it's already unrestricted under ordinance we have to kind of Follow that
right now because safety comes first for our children and that's what we're looking and I understand that I mean I know where you live you live right by me and I'm right by Howard Avenue yes the go there we do go to that Park it's wonderful I don't know if the county put
a put a splash park in there but I don't know what their improvements are going to be um but for right now we're just contain that um no worries I just wanted to ask you for sure thank you thank you thank you anyone
else okay hearing or seeing no one I'd like a motion to close to public I'll make the motion may have a second second all in favor I I okay so here I am I'm going to
announce maybe I should just go through this ordinance on this one first but um whatever you know what I'm just going to announce the boards here right now so I know there's people here that are looking for that and here we
go first of all these boards are volunteer and thank you to everybody that came forward to volunteer I love volunteers put the time in you're not getting compensated sometimes you're not even recognized but I'm recognizing you and I want to thank you for coming forward
quite a few people uh came forward for the land use board and very very good and qualified people but I can only choose so many and that's an appointed by the mayor I did speak to other people in the council about them and moving
forward we have a folder if your name is not announced the folder would say you know who who would be next to line for these so again I thank everybody I did interview these people I did with Mr twinski also so the following are um it
would be um so I'm on it as class one mayor for the term as long as I am mayor and Michael Warren is the Environmental commissioner so he is on for three years Mr trinsky is the representative from
the township Council and he is class three for one year I have Christina Holtz class four for four years krupin I can never say his last name n he is on class four for four years Tina Mueller class 4 three years
Andrew Matson class four three years abib AB which is Eddie AB class four two years William Coleman class four two years alterat Sean Smith two years alterate Debbie kadara alternate two
years Robert White alternate one year and Lou mezone alternate one year again thank you very much um this will be I can we post these on the website correct we can put this up on the website that you can have it so anybody can go
back to it so the next meeting actually the first meeting for the L use board is March 20th not the 22nd not the 28th not the 27th that was advertised it is next Thursday at 7
p.m. um at that time the board can decide when they want their meeting how many meetings I believe they they could decide how many meetings too right and they can choose their attorney and planner and move forward that way
the L use board looks at these applications that come forward for the zoning and the planning together and they go through everything they need to and then recom their recommendation would go then toward the Town Council under their resolutions so that's how we move forward with them I
ask um everyone who was chosen and uh the ones who weren't chosen will they be receiving an email yes I'm going to I'm going to send out something we'll either send a a letter maybe M can help us out on that to send a letter of thank you and appreciation for serving all these
boards and also thank you for putting it in because we're going to hold them on file right I just don't want people to assume or you know come to a meeting not knowing so that could be PR out before the first meeting we're going to try our best we'll get it I understand what
you're saying appreciate that so then we have the um I'm going to let me do this I'm going to do the ordinance first for the sh tree but the environmental I have here and the environmental is Mr Michael
Warren for three years I can and I'm appointing him chairman Tina Muller three years Pat Patricia and Borgo two years uh Lou mazone two years G Abu hi G one year
Chris sharidan one year and Samantha I can't say that Osa Amara right I made it right um for one year so that is the environmental and uh the dates for that would be from what I'm understanding Michael the date
for the environmental is going to be at 6:30 the first Thursdays of each month or 7:30 7:30 first THS each month right after sh which is at 6:30 so they're both back to back first Thursday and this would be um also
we need all the dates for advertising this I believe I told missa that already so she can get that from Mr Warren if any of these dates change or conflict with something else all right and then I'll do uh that's environmental did this one and then I'll do sh Tre after the
ordinance so yes intro first yes we're doing the intro M Kayla mayor judge asks for a motion to introduce by title on the first reading ordinance number 1224 d25 by way of resolution number
02599 an ordinance to amend chapter 150 entitled Property Maintenance of the Township Code of the township of roell Park state of New Jersey and it be published in full in the Buran record with notice of public hearing to be held on March 26 2025 may have a motion please I'll make the motion may have a second I'll second
roll call committee woman aichi yes committee woman Ora yes Deputy Mayor Miller yes commit trinsky yes and mayor judge C yes so this is the ordinance for adoption and this ordinance of adoption is the establishment of a sh tree commission Miss Michaela would you
please read it mayor judge CLL asks for a motion to open a public hearing on ordinance number 218-252-1113 I don't have much to say about the ordinance itself other than um I just want to thank everyone involved
for any conversations I've had with anyone up there about the shry commission over the past couple of years I've been up here you know trying to promote that for the town um I want to thank people who have
stepped forward to volunteer to be on it um um and uh I'm hopeful this passes tonight I'm I'm taking a big assumption here um and if it does pass I did ask the volunteers to come uh who can make it tonight if we could take a picture
with the township committee um kind of a little celebratory picture that's okay with the township committee um and uh we're ready to plant some trees and and and try to bring back our shade tree
canopy thank you guys thank you Mr Warren anyone else from the public okay not hearing or see anyone may have a motion to close the public motion can I have a second second roll call committee woman AI yes
committee woman arula this is just closing or closing usually it's closing and adoption so I'm we can do both we'll do both we closing an adoption we start you just do okay may we have a start to just for adoption at this point the closing
we don't have to do a r call but I'll make the motion may have a second I'll second okay roll call committee woman aichi yes committee woman ARA no Deputy Mayor Miller yes SM Min chinsky yes
mayor judge gll yes motion's passed okay so I'm going to talk about the shade Tre now sha tree commission these are the people that are listed Mr Warren fiveyear term Miss meller fiveyear term Patricia I'm sorry
fouryear term Patricia and Borgo three-year term Lou maone two-year term Gada Abu oneyear term Christopher Sheridan as an alternate on thisis 5-year term and then Samantha is a four-year alterate on this okay this um has to be
voted on for the chairperson so when you have your meeting they can decide your chair secretary and well um and I I believe you said this is at 6:30 first Thursdays of each month
right thank you again for volunteering everyone for doing this did you want to take a quick picture now or do you want to you want to do that so they can go yeah I I know they have to go they have a moment to take it is that okay with consensus all right great anybody want
to take a picture why I'll take it if you want I was going to take it for yes I am come on come on come on come on okay one two thank you got Granda orange trees around town we
can just pick them as we go orange trees lemon okay all right first THS have the first is that right this will also have to be advertised all right so we're down to all items listed below
yep all items list below are considered to be routine and noncontroversial by the township committee and will be approved by one motion there will be no separate discussion of these items unless Comm many member or citizen so request in which case the item will be removed from the consent agenda and
considered in its normal sequence on the agenda as part of general orders so we have resolution 093 094 095 096 097
098 and Z we just did 100 the W on was this one and 100 025 100 and that would be for um secretary right so we're all good with this I may
have a motion to I'll make the motion have a second second call committee woman ofi yes committee woman ARA yes Deputy Mayor Miller yes committee trinsky yes mayor judge yes okay so at this point we will
be going back into Clos session I uh there will be no action taken this thaning the meeting other than a jing the meeting but at this point we don't see it this is a attorney Cent matters and we'll probably be about 45 minutes probably I can't give a
definite but approximately 45 minutes but at this point I don't see any action taken um and then the next meeting is a public meeting for March 26 2025 may have a motion to go into close session I'll make the motion I'll
second okay Lo call womani yes committee woman ARA yes Deputy Mayor Miller yes committee trinsky yes and mayor judge yes so when the meeting reopens you'll be notified and again the only action that will be taken will be to aduring the meeting but you have a right to be here when that does take place very good
thank you all for coming thank you for