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2025 council meeting to order we'll start with the flag salute I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United un States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and
justice for all moment of silence to remember the service and sacrifices of the armed service members who protect our nation and the First Responders who protect our neighborhoods cler please take the role
Council councilman Freelander here councilman sacket here councilman Quinn here councilman Brooks here councilwoman noon here councilman salberg here councilman boyovich here Council vice
president Brooks here council president Marson here adequate notice of this meeting was provided to the Daily Record in the official newspapers for the township of Rockaway notice was posted on the official bulletin board of Rockway Township the township website and notice was filed in the office of
the Township Clerk uh before we get going I'd like to give uh a couple of minutes to uh Lisa salbert uh to discuss and talk about uh hcma hello everybody it's been a long time this is not my real voice I'm
borrowing it from somebody else I'm not contagious this is the remnants of the flu may I encourage you all to get your flu shots so back in 1995 my sister Lori passed away from Sudden Cardiac Arrest due to hypotrophic cardiomyopathy HCM is a genetic heart muscle disorder that affects one in 250
worldwide back in 1953 my grandfather who lived right here on Green Pond Road had a sudden Cardiac Arrest at the age of 42 in retrospect that was the first sign in our family that there was a problem and it all kind kind of started here in Rockaway after my grandfather's death
there wasn't much to be done CPR wasn't even developed yet after my sister's death in 1995 the we came to the Town Council at that point and we asked for more aeds on ambulances and within six months of her death we had aeds on ambulances within a
few weeks of that or months of that we went to the schools and we asked for aeds in the schools this was 1999 this was way ahead of the curve during this time we started as a family of an organization which is a 501c3 we've been in existence now for 29 years the first
couple years we were super small and really tiny and now we have a nice office out on Board Road um across the street from Rockway I'm in Denville but now we have 15 staff and contractors and we are working both in the United States
and abroad we now have 56 hcma recognized centers of excellence throughout the United States and I just got back from a trip from Mexico where we are going to be developing out the Latin America experience with HCM and we have just rebranded all of our material
to bilingual um Spanish English and Portuguese to reach the South American population I'm also working in um Europe Australia and where else oh uh India to develop
what we're calling HCM which is our International Outreach every um year now in February we know it's har month and uh also history month but I'm here to talk about heart month and the last Wednesday of February is HDM awareness
day we have proclamations laws or resolutions currently in 26 States for 2025 HDM awareness day and we are working on legislation in Six States to require the well Tri examination to include cardiac components like we do here in New Jersey we were the first to
do it here in 2015 I am inviting you all on February 26th to our office to see exactly how we do the that we've done and I have invitations for you all which I will hand out over here later and I encourage everybody to come out and learn about
what HCM is what genetic heart muscle disorders are and where we are going to do a little drill Dr har which will teach you the skills that you need to prepare your workplace your homes your sports teams for a cardiac emergency so I hope that you all take a few minutes
to come out and see us on February 26 66 Ford Road you'll see all the balloons it'll probably be a little obnox ous and Sergio is catering and there'll also be some goodies there as well and this is a familyfriendly event we're going to be doing some arts and crafts and there's even going to be maybe a raffle or two
but I'll leave that a secret for now so I hope you can come out and join us as one of your council members is our one of our founding board members and currently our secretary and I the founder and vice president of the board we really want to let you know what we're doing and how what we're doing here in Rockaway is really reaching the
world so thank you very much for your time thanks Joe [Applause] just as an aside to that um and I I know I don't have to tell you but this council is always you know been a big supporter and this council is
responsible for placing 17 aeds in every one of our say it loud we are responsible 1 aeds we have placed 17 aeds at every one of our public Recreation uh facilities and we also have a town ordinance that requires aeds in buildings that have over 300 resident
or uh visitors a day so this all happen over the last couple years so again this council is responsible for that so again thanks everybody here and we are on board thank you okay moving on to the approval of the minutes from the January 21st Township council meeting can I have a
motion so move second clerk please take the role councilman Freelander yes councilman zck yes councilman Quinn yes councilman Brooks yes councilwoman noon yes councilman salberg yes councilman
boyovich yes Council vice president Brooks yes council president Morrison yes that is nine yeses motion passes uh okay we have two ordinances for introduction today now normally when we do an ordinance for introduction there is no discussion on it and we just go
through them and vote um the first ordinance is about the uh raising and keeping of chickens and I know there there's a lot of uh thoughts about this on on both sides of the discussion uh so so for this ordinance I am going to open
to council and administration uh for comments uh we will start with Mr y thank you council president um this ordinance is on for reintroduction uh I believe the last
time it was November uh but the better practice is to if you're breaching a calendar year the better practice is to reintroduce an ordinance uh in the new calendar year uh so that's why it's on for
reintroduction uh when the ordinance was originally on for introduction and passed at that time considered uh consistent with the required practice it was passed over to the planning board uh for review and
comment uh the planning board uh courtesy of a memo from our planner Dave Novak uh came back to the C Council uh with basically a single suggestion and that suggestion was to provide uh for
what I'm going to call a minimum lot size uh in the ordinance the way the ordinance is currently structured it allocates the number of chickens that are acceptable based upon the light lot
size uh logically which I'm pleased to say the ordinance does uh the bigger the lot the more chickens Property Owners entitled to have when you look at our zone for our Zone format it really works
out the same way so that specification of a minimum lot size in the ordinance is not really required uh honestly I didn't attend the planning board session when this ordinance was considered and I
usually don't do those things but uh uh so I can't really speak to the issue of whether or not the planning board was aware of how the ordinance was structured and why it was structured that way uh inserting a minimum lot size
requirement in the ordinance is no big deal however would be a substantive Amendment and that would require the amendment to be made uh forwarded around and then place for reintroduction if that's the council's preference it can
certainly be done by the next meeting uh it would not be re uh necessary to reward it to the planning board because all we'd be doing if the council wants to proceed in that fashion is to insert the amendment that the
planning board requested alternatively the council in its uh in its power and discretion can vote to disregard the recommendation of the planning board because of the way the ordinance really is structured which essentially has the same effect but I'll leave that to the
council okay so the way I'd like to approach this is I know a lot of people a lot of us have comments that we want to make so what we'll do is I'll I'll make a couple comments and we'll just go from one side down to the other if that's okay and then we'll open it back up if that works for you guys so to sum
it up the the ordinance as it's written is very robust in in the rule so what we're trying to avoid is you know somebody with for instance a very very small lot size in white metal Lake you know from bringing in a large flock of chickens right so it depending on the
lot size will determine how many chickens you can have now part of that determination also requires certain can we please quiet down that's okay so what the ordinance calls for is depending on um the lot
size will determine how many chickens you can have then how many chickens you have will determine the size of the pen or the coupe you know that you need now through the nature of the setbacks and the size required for x amount of chickens most of the small Lots would be
excluded from having chickens anyway right so like Mr Yano said in Li of eliminating or starting at a certain lot size and going up the ordinance as it's written today essentially does the same
thing okay so if you require a coupe of you know 20 by 25 and it exceeds the setbacks allowed you can't have chickens right um you know especially with the with the cost of eggs nowaday you could get you know two chickens for the less for less
than cost for a dozen eggs and then you can have you can have all the eggs you want um the other part I'll say is we we this has been bouncing back and forth for six months right we've spoken about this the ordinance committee reviewed it and approved the ordinance uh or approved
putting the ordinance forward it went to the planning board I never received a memo back from the planning board all right and I think we started this in October right so my personal feeling is is that due to the fact that the ordinance gives the planning board
essentially what they're looking for anyway that you know that's my opinion on it so so we can go to we'll start in theend and we'll start with councilman Quin so um being a representative for the planning board I know that they
wanted to have uh delineation for a size of the acreage for chickens and U that's why uh when John said he got the memo that um I would like to have that put
into the uh into the file and into the ordinance I know we original ordinance was written and we looked at it and it looked fine but then the planning board came back
with this change and it makes sense to be not to confuse the residents because you're going to open this up and you're going to get people from White Meadow coming in that have an undersized lot looking to get chickens and and uh it's
just going to create I think an administrative nightmare for the town if we limit it and put it in hard language uh it makes more sense to me so I would like to put this off until the next
meeting and uh have John uh re redo it so that it has that in it and then we'll we'll put it in for um for us to vote on so that would be my motion if uh when
I make a motion now it's just open for discussion all that's my discussion okay anything anything more councilman Quinn are you good I'm good all right councilman second thank you council president just
um my concern is about the Enforcement issue I know when we passed the um the deer ordinance um had a lot of residents reaching out that the um enforcement was a problem and that's a concern I see with this ordinance is inforcement again thank
you let's go around first and then we'll put it again um Mr no additional comment councilman movich I have no comment councilwoman Brooks so I have to agree with Jonathan
about enforcement I'd like to hear first off if the planner came back with a memo in any type of recommendation I wish we would have seen it prior um because I think that's important he's kind of an expert we have them in place to to do those things so I agree that I think the
minimum lot sides based on his recommendation is highly important I also have concerns about enforcement I'd also like to hear um possible feedback Andor um concerns from the health department uh just again back of on
enforcement looking at the ordinance and I had circled just even the death and Disposal portion like seems like a lot of work on the townships uh part in terms of whatever and if a chicken you know this isn't like a dog that's being licensed is every chicken's leg going to
be tagged and if it's running loose are we going to be able to say oh that's Charlie's Chicken you know my dog is licensed right so if he's loose Danny's going to pick him up and know where to bring them back or who to call right so you know there's an aspect of that um so I have a lot of concerns about it just
in terms of the health safety and enforcement of it all councilwoman I agree with councilman Clint and with the concerns I think we have the planning board for a reason and I think we should have taken their considerations or recommendations into
considerations and have it Rewritten councilman Brooks no comment councilman freedland well I kind of agree with the councilman Quinn and the rest uh when I
saw this to introduce it when it's not complete you just spinning wheels you you're better off getting it done the right way and then introducing it why introduce something that is it's not going to be
done I state with the jack that I think we should pull this until it's corrected and done the right way and then introduce it okay it's not that it's not complete it's that the the planing board had recommendations which never made it back
to this Council over the course of six months um as far as as far as enforcement's concerned we we do collect there's going to be a permit fee for this I would assume right so you need a permit and there's a fee associated with that right so you are talking about
revenue and something else too is I my personal feeling is I wouldn't hold off introducing something for fear that we think the township Administration would enforce it you know like we would never put in a police ordinance because we don't think that you know the the
chief and his people couldn't enforce it so Mr Quint and then there's the issue of bird flu right now which is Big with the poultry and it's also gone to geese
and other people other animals too so is our health department going to go around checking all these chickens to make sure they don't have bird flu uh that's a concern I have also all right Mr tabot I don't know if
you're prepared to answer how many cases of bird flu have been found in the in private residences so far nationally 68 cases Nationwide yes human cases but it's not transable
your mic's not working I'm sorry this now work just yeah 68 illnesses and one death nationally um but for public health concerns the concern is just as with any pandemic is if and when the pathogen can be transmitted not from a chicken to a
human by incidental exposure or close contact but when it mutates and can become transmissible person to person which does happen in pandemic events so that but those are the numbers um being that you are a health officer do you have any other comments that you wish to
make towards this I share some of the concerns expressed about Avan influenza um it's kind of blown up in terms of contact from the State Health Department and the CDC but um again some of that is really just in reference to what could
be not necessarily in reference to what presently is so I have concerns that a health officer typically would and I can furnish information if anybody on the governing body is interested in the data or the current status um council president anybody else from
Administration have any comments yes Mr council president if I if I may um just accommodating some of the concerns I've heard stated from the council uh I have a suggestion if it meets with the council's approval uh
number one we can certainly find and submit to the council the original letter from the planning board that I believe was drafted by Dave Novak on the issue of permits and fees uh we would normally deal with that by resolution uh
after an ordinance was passed okay and that's a relatively simple matter a council of course would have to approve the permit structure and the fees uh that could be done by resolution um I spoke with uh Mr Tabit before the
meeting tonight about any what I'll call bird flu concerns relative to this um Mr tabot said that if requested uh he could put together a short memo to the Council on the subject and I'd recommend that to the council if they are concerned and I
quite frankly I think they should be uh and uh let me suggest that to get all this done uh which means uh inserting the recommendation from the planning board and we could even do it in a dual track way I mean the adding the language
requested by the planning board is not going to change anything else in the ordinance it's just going to make its application more specific so we can redraft the ordinance with the recommended language provide the council with the original language from the planning
board uh supplement all of that with a proposal can I ask everybody to please silence their devices supplement all that with a resolution in the fee structure uh and Mr Tabit uh couldn't provide the council
with a brief memo on any related health concerns uh I'd suggest we put it off until the first meeting of March to give us the opportunity to get all this to the council uh and then uh put it on again for introduction at that point but
that's just my suggestion okay so Mr Quinn was going to make a motion before and we're not there yet but that is your right to do that now my only stipulation would be is should Mr Quinn make a motion to table this and should that pass I would like to ask additional
question one second I I would like to ask that if I do not get specifics from the planning board by the next meeting it's going back on that's fine it's been long enough yeah I mean that that single communication we can get to you very quickly okay M
Brooks so I want to clarify I didn't say anyone would not enforce it I my question simply states do we have the capacity to enforce some of these very specific things in this ordinance Mr Quinn well I'd like to make a motion to
postpone this until we can get all the information uh that John had suggested and put it on for March and if Howard if you don't get the information by the next meeting go ahead and put it
on you'll go you'll get the uh you'll get the resolution excuse me you'll get the recommendation of the planning board before the next meeting uh everything else I'd like if we're going to put it on again for introduction I'd suggest the first meeting next month yeah I listen if we're going to do this we've
had long enough if we're going to get the recommendations and rewrite the res uh the the ordinance then I'd like it to be at our next meeting okay um all right Mr there's a motion on the floor Mr Quin is there a second I'll second it okay clerk please take the
role councilman Freelander yes councilman sacket yes councilman Quinn yes councilman Brooks abstain councilwoman noon yes councilman salberg yes councilman boyovich I think
we've been dealing with this ordinance long enough uh no council vice president no council president Morrison no so that's five yeses check my math five yeses three knows one abstention correct
okay so this will be pulled for the next meeting again I'd ask uh Administration or or clerk to make sure that this is presented at the next meeting for a vote okay moving on uh agenda 0252 an ordinance amending chapter 5 54 entitled
land use and development of the code of the township of Rockway creating a new section 54-30 71 entitled RMF o-12 B hospitality and affordable multi family residential overlay District can I have a motion so moved second CL please take
the role councilman Freelander yes councilman sackin yes councilman Quinn yes councilman Brooks yes councilwoman n yes councilman salber yes councilman boyovich yes Council vice president
Brooks yes council president Morrison yes it's N9 yeses motion passes and council president this will need to be referred to the planning board for their next meeting okay which I believe is in early March ah not so early March who who scheduled that what St
Patrick's say or the meeting putting the meeting on St Patrick's Day uh okay uh consent agenda uh R 25-35 R2 5 -36 R 25-37 um can I have a motion so move
second uh before we vote on it I just wanted to at least give the opportunity Mr Mayor I want to put you on the spot but R 2535 is pretty substantial uh resolution that I think uh you should talk about yeah so uh the
resolution is for the new lease with the land owner of uh Norway field um that they just purchased it uh a Ukrainian soccer organization from the Norbu Lodge um we've been negotiating with them for
the past several months um and we were able to basically get soccer the use of the field they have today not basically we're able to get them to use of the field they have today um some of the time switched up a little bit but they were uh you know my conversations with
soccer they were more than satisfied um with the terms of the lease and so it was a lot of work um car prone put a lot of effort into going back and forth with their attorney and it's I think it's a big win for the township and the soccer program if we're still going to be able to use that
field thank you uh clerk please take the RO councilman Freelander yes councilman sacket yes councilman Quinn yes councilman Brooks yes councilwoman noon yes councilman salber yes councilman
voitovich yes Council vice president Brooks yes council president Marson yes it's N9 yes is motion passes uh okay moving on to the open to the public portion uh before opening the public portion of this meeting I want to remind everybody of the rules that apply to
anyone who wants to address the council any member of the public wishing to address the council will have three minutes to do so while an extension of time may be requested it should not be assumed that an extension of time will be granted while addressing the council members of the public may not address or
question any individual council member member if anyone addressing the council violates these rules or conducts themselves inappropriately their speaking opportunity will be terminated and they will be instructed to return to their seat a refusal to comply will result in removal from the room members
of the public in attendance may not make comments from the audience without recognition by the chair persons doing so will be subject to removal from the room as council president I have tremendous respect for my fellow council members and the public who take the time and effort to account to attend Council meetings
these rules are necessary to permit the council to do its business in an orderly and professional manner Mr ardi uh thank you Michael ardi 19 North Brookside Drive um one quick question on the ordinance about the soccer field what's the term the length of the lease
agreement 10 years 10 years 10 years okay thank you um on the chicken ordinance did the town consultant priton Hydro for any guidance on this ordinance we the township spent um large sum of money to do that Watershed plan so I would like to get some professional
guidance on the um the effects of having you know chickens I mean right now it might be you know five people wanting it but once this ordinance is on the books it's going to be on the books probably decades so looking long term I'd like to
have a um some input from the experts on how it will affect the Watershed I know like in white meow Lake if you had Lake fun homeowners with chicken that you know it says to clean up the chicken coup but you know rain will wash the chicken stuff right into the lake which is just more organic matter people
that live along the streams we have everything on white min lake is uphill from the lake it's all part of the Watershed anything that's not cleaned up on a very routine basis will just go into the storm drains and into the lake and add to the nutrient load um so I
would like that to get some consideration before this is passed um also with on that same kind of note is the geese geese problem in the township White mle Lake is planning on spending some money to do a geese deterrent
program but for it really to be effective the township would have to do it you know Parks lake is a disaster I mean that one Goose lady kind of keeps the poop off the sidewalks to try to keep the complaints down but the mall is
loaded with them Peterson Field up Green Pond Road on any grassy land is loaded with Gees so the township should consider if not this year to put in the budget for some kind of program to try to deter these geese because they're just multiplying and multiplying and it just adds to the loow nutrients to all
the Watershed problem so we're paying it on the other end to clean the water we might as well try to prevent it and it's also who wants to walk in it it's on the playgrounds where our kids are playing on you know little kids pick it up on the the beaches it's just a health hazard
um lastly right metal lake is redoing the deck at each one it's a $105,000 project the township permit is $3,700 for that project because it's based on $34 per $110,000 up to half a
million dollars if it was a 20q foot deck it's the same inspection you're inspecting the footings the holes the structure whatever the process is $3,700
that's 4% of the cost of the project basically that's four homeowners dues going just for the permit I don't know if everyone's aware what the permit fees would be on a $100,000 project but to me that's quite a bit for a deck project where the deck is already there we're
just replacing it thanks for your consideration on that thank you thanks M we Coleman Emily Coleman 18 Lakes Shore Drive stop by anytime you want um I just um was
here tonight I was wondering with all the cuts that are going to be coming from the federal government all the uh all over what is Rockway Township going to do like in a mutual Aid type of situation to take care of the people who are going to be suffering from not
getting their Meals on Wheels and people that are are not going to be getting their SNAP benefits to get some food so I just wanted to put that out there and also I'm just uh on another topic I'm just really happy about the senior prom that's G to be coming in March that was my idea so I just wanted to come up here
and thank myself Tucker Kelly uh Tucker Kelly 16 Megan Road Rockway Township uh Mr Morrison just in the beginning here um I don't believe there's anybody that signed in but I would ask for maybe potentially a two-minute extension to the three-minute time limit that you have here again I
know that you can make that decision but I just wanted to put up front before my time started could that be something possible I don't think so I'm sorry I don't think so okay uh so last meeting on the 21st of January in the end there was a report from Mr Yano Our Town attorney in regards to Opa request and
op request that I had me uh during that 3 minute ordeal out of the 45 minute meeting there was comments about me making 60 opal requests in the year of 2024 however what I didn't hear from the to attorney was that there was a total of 1100 op request made in that same
year to uh the municipal clerk's office so the 1100 what does that mean that means on 1100 different occasions this Administration through the clerk's office forced the public to fill out an opal request has to get public records records that we're entitled to now Oprah
is not mandatory under the statute and that's 471 A-1 it's something that has to compel government to give documents to the requestor the public that potentially the town does not want to provide and on many case and it is that case so like the 45 minute meeting that
we had on the 21st Mr Yano spoke for three minutes the entire meeting but yet he didn't mention to everybody that he builded the taxpayers for $1,400 to prepare and participated in that meeting on the 21st what I also didn't hear was those opral requests that I had submitted it's
actually divulge that maybe Mr Quinn didn't pay his sewer assessment of 20 plus thousand it also exposed that Mr Brooks didn't have insurance in a Babe Ruth baseball league that didn't protect children coaches we're not talk about
individual you don't talk about them individually I'm talking to you and talking to the council and again whatever time is interrupted for me I would just want it back no so these are things that were not revealed we also had were a plumbing subcode official was working in five different towns while
for a time in Rockway Township forced to resign we also revealed through Oprah that our police chief was under investigation for sexual harassment we also revealed that this Administration was trying to force minimum wage on new hired police officers in Rockway
Township and instead of criticizing people that are rooting out information to make it somewhat public so to that the public have an opportunity to say hey what's going on what's going on with our tax dollars like another point if we look at our town attorney's invoices
monthly they're an average of $35,000 and when you review them he's actually doing the work of multiple department heads that are also being paid a full-time salary many of them over a half a million dollars combined when we look at Oprah and we
ask for some of the appointees or people that are given employment some that are friends family of council members here you that don't even have the requirements and certifications for that job I'm sorry your time is up but get to get paid your time up $5,000 your time
is up so and and I apologize to the public for you know devolving into this whole process again but you know what this Council has a responsibility to conduct ourselves professionally
um you know we we we owe it to the public we owe it to ourselves uh again to conduct our business in a professional manner you know you Mr Kelly are committed to exactly the opposite and everything for you is self- serving um so again there's you know a couple things so let's bring it up you
know we talk about the opras opras are a great way to track information right so yes people file opras many people aren aware AR aware of the process so they do do you know they look it up and they do what they think is right and they file an Oprah as opposed you know I could
imagine you know uh or Administration being inundated with emails to God knows who because there's no process other than filing an Oprah I think it's a great part of our democracy and I encourage us to continue that process um
you know as far as billing the taxpayers for you know our our legal fees you're responsible for a huge portion of that Mr Kelly you know that's that's mostly you um and as far as rooting out information for the public you know you
you put yourself out there as like the social conscience of the town when anybody else has the same right to come and ask for our information if they're going to you to get information they're just going to be
misinformed you know you you like to bring out individual things about people and qualifications and you know who's hiring who and you know listen this is really not that big of a town everybody knows everybody you know and if you go
to a a friend and you know find me one person who hasn't gone to a friend for advice on finding a job you know at the end of the day we're going to hire the most qualified people as you can tell by the multiple opras that you filed you
know on people's uh you know the qualifications that you think they should have you not having the qualifications yourself to make that judgment you know you you talk about um different things that happen you know and if we're going to talk about publicly available
information um I went online and I got some publicly available information on all of the legal charges that have been filed against you Mr Kelly so let's run through those July 199 injuries or threats to people was that
the instance when you assaulted a minor and were convicted of that was that that case when you barge into the house and you beat up a kid I don't know if that was the case there receiving stolen property knowing property is stolen May 2000 harassment communication manner to
cause alarm two instances uh February of3 February of6 prohibition operation of a snowmobile uh unregistered ATV no Li ility Insurance uh storage of vehicles um here's two in uh March of 08
harassment or any other alarming conduct this is all Mr Kelly this is one person um improper display unclear plates failure to have inspection I know you've brought up you know how you feel about people getting inspections here's a failure to have inspection improperly
displaying or unclear plates uh harassment striking offensive touching uh threat to person was that when you licked the mayor I don't remember if that was that case failure to have inspection here's five in a row improper display unclear plates driving or
parking unregistered motor vehicle uh another two Forin proper display of plates failure to have inspection two of those um in a row um impr here's another God I can't all these improper displaying of plates non-conforming use here's another in 2013 harassment
striking offensive touching threats to person I don't know which case that was uh overtime parking driveway construction um overtime parking that's a minor one we'll let that one go uh driving after your driver's license registration was suspended or revoked
failure to possess a driver's license prohibited storage escavator parked in the front yard so again my point is Mr Kelly is get off your high horse you're a knucklehead all right you're a distraction your time has come and gone all right it's over nobody is
intimidated by you nobody is threatened by you it's over Let It Go is there anybody else in the public that wishes to speak that did not have a chance in this plat please hi I'm Katie Platz um I'm lucky
to be a member of both the Zoning Board of adjustment and the planning board I'm actually here at the request of the zoning board um on behalf of our board last year at the end of the year we come together at our last meeting and decide
if there's any recommendations we'd like to make to you the council um and we did this year at the end of the year last year we asked the council to consider creating an ordinance for us to have a completeness subcommittee so what that
means is that when residents or other applicants come to the zoning board the first thing we must do is make sure that their application is complete that essentially means that they have provided all the documentation mailed out the notices shown us that their
taxes are paid things like that but it's a variety of requirements they must meet before we even begin their application um many of our applicants are just regular residents they don't they're not represented by attorneys and therefore some of this is difficult for them and
it can cause their application to be delayed or our meetings to be delayed um um and subcommittees as you know can be quite helpful so we would like uh you to consider creating an ordinance which is required for us to have a subcommittee
to streamline our process and really most importantly to help our residents when they come before us to request a variance so that we can make sure that their application is complete and move their application as swiftly as possible because even once their application is approved they then have to wait for that
resolution to begin uh working on their project unless they're going to do it at their own Peril so everybody knows when you want to do something you want to move and sometimes they don't even get uh before us unfortunately um the council didn't take any action and I didn't realize I was
going to be here for the chicken ordinance but uh rather than acting on our uh request as a a governing body or Council you you chose to draft this chicken ordinance um and because I am on the planning board as well I can speak
on what the planning board's recommendation was um we didn't feel that it would just be our recommendation would just be to um keep the the ordinance as it was in fact that's not what uh our recommendation was um I'm
very surprised and council president the idea that the planning board did not provide you with a response and that you are demanding a response before the next meeting I think is entirely inaccurate so I sort of take umage to that because we take what we do quite seriously and
Dave Novak who is our planner uh is from Burgess and Associates he is beyond excellent I know Mr um and it was just stated that he's the one that wrote the letter he's very diligent knowledgeable and I'm sure uh your ordinance committee I believe worked with him on this chior
ordinance um so he was and we met in October um our minutes reflect that I reviewed today it wasn't just lot size our recommendation was an acre a minimum of an acre and that's because as the
planning board we have no decision-making authority over this ordinance there's no I'm not suggesting we do instead Our obligation was to um review it in Conformity with the master plan and that's what we always do as a
planning board and as a board what we found is that your proposed ordinance is not in conformity with our master plan um and therefore uh to come in Conformity our recommendation was minimum lot size of an acre not as a
member of any board but instead as a resident I live in the North End of town our lot sizes are very small no matter what you're stating about you're not going to have a chicken uh we also have a lot of wildlife so there are would have been seen to be coyotes not
everybody lives in the same part of town Rockway is pretty diverse so what you might see is what you're going to deal with in Fleetwood is not what we're going to deal with in telmar um so we didn't feel like it would just be the same whether you included it or not
second I'd love to know the date of that memo and it was provided to you because it was provided to your professionals it was provided to your councel if you were wondering what we were going to do because that is the process you could have asked your attorney it's been in your possession since then so uh I I
have great respect for our board and for our professionals I almost guarantee you that memo is from November at most December there's no delay on our part so I respectfully request that you consider our opinion I am completely aware Mr
Freelander that we have no power and that it's all in your hands um as members of the board I mean everybody but I love I love Mr Freelander especially um and I I appreciate your time but please
if you would consider drafting that ordinance so we could have that subcommittee I know Dave Novak would assist you thank you very much okay um so two points one as far as the first request about the ordinance that you were asking for if you happen to have an example or something that you can
forward to our clerk right there you're looking at me you were just crinkling something um if you have something that you can forward then obviously you'd be more to have to consider it and then the other thing um I okay no no no no no the first part
about having the um the the subcommittee sub just to outline that um and then the other thing as far as you know the chicken ordinance you know again I I didn't get a copy but again if if we had a copy I would have hoped that those
that that recommendation would have been part of the ordinance and I'm more than happy we have a planning board for a reason I'm more than happy man Council free L we're more than happy to you know abide by the recommendations of the
planning board that's what you're there for so okay is there anybody else from the public who didn't sign Eric lilski it's a hard two to follow Tucker and then Katie
uh little bummed I haven't been here all that recently and uh could not see anything in print available to the public or if there was it was clearly not enough as far as the documentation agenda we run agenda maybe I missed it
they're on the table Yeah the back um sometime ago maybe it was during covid the board allowed residents to participate through email in advance of the meeting and or
Callins I'm sure I'm missing something but it seems like that opportunity is gone away not sure if that's the case or not but it's you know with seven nine people on average watching these meetings out of
26,000 probably a good idea if we could extend out in whatever different way can information to the community um you know and the ability for them to attend again whether it's via email ask a question um or phone in
not sure if that's possible or not um your elected officials I appreciate the amount of time that you put in outside of this time um you know there are people that think it's a short amount of time maybe 40 hours a year I'm
not sure I subscribe to that having said that what is a little frustrating is and I haven't done the Tucker Kelly on this to go back and analys analyze every meeting but it seems consistently if I were to go back for at least a year that
when it come to individual reporting there's typically two maybe three people that have anything of substance Mr Quinn Mr Freelander sometimes Mr sacket and I I find that a little bit
frustrating because as elected official who are paid by the taxpayers I would think that you're out there involving yourselves and therefore have something to report on a regular basis Beyond just your personal like and I I mean that
respectfully like I was always a sports guy so I would gravitate to sports but I don't if again I can go back and do it I don't want to but I think you'll agree that there's very little reporting and I and I kind of question with them what are we doing how are you helping the
taxpayers what are we getting back and to that end you've all received my emails for months now we had a situation where there was an accusation by the mayor's office through um an investigation where where there was a
person that allegedly did something that may have not been so cool there was no uh regulation in place would you like more I would thank you no regulation in place for sanctions
and so forth which I understand and I've expressed this to each one of you via email Mr Quinn thank you because you're the only one that has responded to my four emails um why is there not an investigation to determine the accuracy
of the mayor's statement it doesn't investigation provides full disclosure to the taxpayers based on the an alleged by an elected official that we should be aware of you're not required to create
any sanctions or do anything but I believe again that to maintain your integrity with the town you should follow through with an investigation and and share the results not with an opinion left or right bias
or not but share the results if it's accurate the town payers taxpayers should be aware of it if it's inaccurate then the mayor's office would have to to address that as well thank you thanks um two responses one as far as
making the meeting more accessible uh I'd like to remind the public that they don't need to wait for a meeting to ask a question especially by email they can ask any time they like but that being said you know I'm I'm open to um taking a look at other options that
are available to us so I I don't know if it's feas to do you know like a WebEx during a meeting things like that but I'm certainly open to other suggestions um as far as reports I agree with you I mean I the reports that you
know are book ends here you know give us all the time but um those two are part of committees that are really the only committees that have standard stand uh standing meetings like the historical committee the planning board things like that um and that's really what the
report section is for is to report out on meetings and things like that we've gotten into you know uh personal experiences and things that we've done which I always welcome you know um there aren't a ton of committees that are spread out you know um but again the
historical committee the library committee the um substance abuse committee planning board you know uh citizens wreck things like that you know I kind of defer to our Statesman I don't want say I mean it
nicely our Elder Statesmen to well to continue on the Committees that they're passionate about right so they they actually have more of a committee load than a lot of the other Council because quite frankly they've earned it you know and that's what I look forward to on reports as far as you know like what's going on in sports and things like that
you know I always like to talk about it I I don't know if it's you know uh if it's necessarily critical to town business you know but again we're certainly welcoming that so appreciate your input anybody else from the public that wishes
to speak please my name is Bruce we 24111 Freddy way Rocka white but it's called Walton I'm not sure why we in Rockway but it's called walon anyway
way to you Mr President uh I would say the gentleman that first spoke he he should have stopped him right when he started making acusations to individual people because
that's the rule the back and forth him attacking you and you attacking him it this is not the place for I I would as a taxpayer I would want
my councilman my the president to not just take control of the meeting stop he was in he was out of on line definitely but it's up to you to say okay that's not here that's not for this place right
now he made some legitimate points though I'm concerned about the uh uh police chief and the acquisation I know nothing about so I can't say one thing or another but that is concerning to me
I also concerned about the code what is the code for Rockaway creating a new section entitled hospitality and affordable multifam resident outlay District I just like to know more about
it because that sounds like to be a lot of different things I I could ask Administration to speak to that during their reports okay okay thank you you're welcome anybody else from the public that wishes to speak okay uh we are going to move on to
um report we will start with councilman qu thank you uh last night we had a planning board meeting and the county um is going to take down their old uh
building that's 30 years old that's over on Dewey Avenue and put up a brand new one at that meeting I asked the county if they would also look at uh dwey Avenue the traffic light off of rout 15
because with the trucks coming off and making that turn onto Dewey um it makes a jam that intersection becomes a mess um you have big tractor trailers going in the back towards the old Thatcher
building for their storage and warehouse and now the county is going to be putting in a bigger building with more trucks for salt and coming out from there they have two Salt THS back there um it's great for us because County
trucks are right here but um it also is a traffic issue then I asked them to also look at uh did you notice the depressions on Route 80 the Mind shafts you better look to make sure
you're not in that line because Avalon and the pond that's next to it is in that line and I don't know if that shaft goes the other way too so they said they would look at look at that they will
talk to the county and they will the county will talk to the state to see about that I had already talked to the mayor CH Wigan about that um he was interested in seeing what they could do uh because it does make a better flow of
traffic onto D we Avenue all right um dealing with the sport programs the winter sports are in fullblown and uh they're going hard so uh
you know it's everybody just be safe with this snow uh this is when heart attacks happen when you're shoveling and all that so just be careful thank you councilman second thank you um I did
have a few residents reach out especially with like councilman Quinn said about the the weather and the icing it seemed like a couple of the residents have reached out were on um dead end type of streets and the plowing um with the ice seemed to be a problem a few
times I didn't hear it anywhere else but I know I know they're always working hard I'm I'm concerned not because the weather is going to continue to be bad I just want to make sure we have enough salt and all that stuff because I know when we put it in our budget the year before last year you know was very mild
winter and now a lot of stuff coming up and like I said a few people have reached out so I'm concerned that I don't want us to run out you know but it seems like some of these dead end streets were kind of maybe hit a little later on I know one of the residents had concerned they were late for work um a little later so that was a couple things
I heard and I also going back to chicken ORS real quick I did Mr L left but uh I had a few White midle Lake residents reach out exactly what he was talking about with the uh the water and and and all that stuff so I just wanted to bring that up thank
you gesman sbert and thank you a few things to report from the uh Board of Commissioners meetings uh first resolution 2025 -100 resolution authoriz authorizing the commissioner director to execute a historic preservation easement Amendment between Township of Rockaway
and the county of mors for a 30-year deed restriction and protection for the preservation work at the Ford FAS house which was assisted by grants from the open space Recreation Farmland historic preservation trust so Manny you got 30 years
yes but so so we got that protection that's been passed U second item kind of on the same note um same meeting again I'm a member of the open space uh trust fund committee and they did vote on this year's uh taxes that will go to certain
um certain projects which we again we're taking applications soon just to realize it's a very very small amount of money from everyone can really do some great things um so the total we're looking at is a total of 38 p uh 38 of a cent per
$100 of County equalized property valuation of that one one quarter of a penny will go towards uh historic properties 1/8 of a penny will go towards the open space trust fund uh by my calculations just that quarter of a penny of contribution uh will give us
probably around 1.6 million this year to preserve lands uh for everybody to use in perpetuity so I thought it was a good use of our monies a very small sacrifice for a for a great reward and finally again February being uh heart month again just to reiterate we hope to see
the administration Council and uh res down at the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Association Office 66 Ford Road Suite 2113b on February 26th thank you now that's a report I know Council move toich I have
nothing to record you want to buy one councilman Freelander thank thank you council president uh couple uh meetings Historical Society bet and they started talking about this year which I'll overlap probably with the mayor Rockway
Township day uh we have a Pathways tour which is in the county and we've been picked for uh uh pathways on May 4th the Sunday we're part of that cycle uh Rockaway Township Bay we talked
about and we're also going out uh Bid And I reached out since I'm on the the library board uh there are grants that the Historical Society received for the Ford F house but now the library wants
to reach out for grants for the hiberia library so they could to told them to talk to each other and just get a little information probably help the library out uh the library met uh and they talked about the the bathroom situation
that they going to redo the bathrooms on that level uh they talked about Spring Festival uh let's see what else uh oh one one important thing is Rockway Township Library I mentioned this once
before about with the Banning of the book situation that's going around country uh Rockway tant became part of the freedom to read sanctuary as far as libraries and his towns and right now in the library Sanctuary program there are
47 libraries hooked up with that program and we're part of it and uh the uh what's the environmental committee that's the end of the month and same thing with the
substance abuse which I'll report probably at the next meeting thank you councilman Brooks thank you council president um first off I just wanted to thank Administration for uh the alert
uh regard to parking uh on the street for snow and I was wondering maybe we can do that like every time it's going to snow because some people just completely forget and they leave their car out there and it's in the way of the plow so maybe we could just send an
alert out every time just to remind everybody because I know white metal Lake and Circle Drive gets really tight and it's just a good reminder cuz some of us don't really pay attention when it's going to snow so that's it thank you councilwoman new
yeah uh two things I did attend the Historical Society meeting this month um which was the first in a very long time I haven't been in a very long time that I was excited that it was entitled The neighborhoods of birth of Rockway and I
was so looking forward to hearing about my neighborhood but an hour and 15 minutes in we're still on the North End and I understand that most of our history is there but I ended up having to leave I was in I ended up having a leave and I didn't hear anything but I I
did hear that they just kind of grazed over it and didn't spend a lot of time on it so I hope they revisit that and uh I know with the budget coming up I've asked for the last couple of years um what would it take to have a
blanket rice notice for all employees for our budget meeting and that's it coun voice president thanks Paul maybe we'll put in the budget a mic for me um I attended the Board of Ed meeting on the 22nd it was
really nice Senator Buco and assembly woman Dunn and assemblyman Bronco came and they um honored dwier school they DWI is now a national ribbon awarded school which is huge um it's a big deal so that was really awesome and nice um I
didn't write down the spelling be things but I'm kind of a geek and I'm a really good spell I love the spelling beat but all the top three one two and three came to Rockway Township so that was awesome the next meeting is tomorrow night 7:30 Copeland calf um I know they're starting
their um they're open to the public earlier at 5:30 as opposed to their normal six um it's not really noted why um and they didn't mention it but just in case anyone is interested but the meeting generally starts at 7:30 in the cafeteria um we have a bunch of other
Awards going out to um students I think of character in all the schools so that's really nice and then last but not least the icy weather I got some residents reached out to me looking for an update on that guard rail on whipper will in leaf Ericson since I have not
heard anything since I keep asking um I'd really appreciate something in that regards and that's all I have thank you okay I have a couple items um I said it before and you know talking about the library um councilman Freelander I've
recently rediscovered uh the public library and and I can't say enough about what they have going on there and the services that they offer and it's a lot more than just books you can get uh you can download free audiobooks with your library card
on your on your phone um through the library there there's a lot a lot of good Services there um talking about sports uh lacrosse has started unbelievably already um they play in the parking lots first until the field until
the snow melts on the field um I understand councilman Brooks that your your son is coming over to the dark side from hockey to Lacrosse um he will be well suited uh for lacrosse so it's good to have uh somebody else
um Mars Hills is looking to uh have a fundraiser um they're going um they're working on getting the Harlem Wizards um to play uh a couple of games against uh the staff of the schools they
have come to the ptas this year um I'm the the president of the Copeland PTA and uh they've approached the ptas in assistance in selling tickets the local ptas uh can now uh benefit and raise money for themselves through ticket sale
so whatever they sell through their school they would get a cut um it's all it's a very very good uh fundraiser it's good for the community um the last time this happened the ticket sold out so fast that they're actually now looking and they have
spoken to County College of Morris and I think there's 1,700 seats uh in that Arena and they're possibly looking at doing two games um more to come on that um I promise that group that once it is uh solidified I'll get the information
out there um and then uh we're talking about the budget so thank you Miss pal Mar for getting the budget out to everybody everybody has a copy of it now um the process has run very very smooth the last couple of years I would ask the counsel that as you start diving into it
if you have any pertinent questions uh you know please again email those to Administration if you feel it is something um that would you know make sense for the rest of the council please you know copy them as well so we just don't duplicate efforts uh and I look forward to another good um budget
meeting uh come that time and that's all I have Mr y thank you council president just one um one comment uh in relation to miss Platt's uh request for subcommittee of the planning board if you be kind enough
to talk to Bill dimon uh I believe the planning board through its own jurisdiction can establish a holy staff subcommittee either one okay would you ask Joe to give me a ring and we'll address it I'll be happy
to thank you Mr Mayor got quite a few things tonight I had to amend my uh report Emily's left did Emily leave Emily left so I did when I first announced we were going to pursue the senior prom um I did
give her credit for that I just want that to be known I did give her credit and uh the health Department's actually reach so if anybody runs into anybody's friends with her the health department did reach out to the county and Meals on Wheels um will continue to be funded which I'm happy about I've been a Meals on Wheels driver for the township for
about seven years um so that's that's a good thing um Katie seeing you up there I I happen to watch my cousin Vinnie this weekend and I was thinking about the whole Marissa to section where she's on the stand and I thought of you when you're up there doing that that was great
um yes yeah where the guys like cross examining her and all that and she's like all over it like knows her stuff like that's what I know yeah there you go so um and I want to recognize uh Lisa salberg and the work she's done in HCM
it's kind of cool having somebody um a native of Rockway Township that's done so much around the world for such a great cause and we appreciate you um I want to go through some things that occurred this weekend so um one of the things I want to recognize about the leash we talked about for Norway field
it also benefits Norbu um Norbu needed money and they got a good chunk of change for selling that field so it was really a win-win win you know the soccer program's getting to use the field this new organization's going to use the field and noru got um much needed money um attended a green pond fire department
holiday party this month it was a great time Arty and the whole crew there do a great job um had a couple of weddings this month um we had a meeting with the land Conservatory to talk about um some proper ities and uh how we might um maintain them as open space we had a
retirement Shan quail in our health department part-time clerk retired um this past week uh the pal does the Challenger baseball we also have the lifted up program um for our Challenger athletes at Morris Hills High School it's pretty cool uh coach lardi has been
doing it probably 20 or 30 years where he has these athletes go into the moris hills weight room and he works them out and it's just uh if you ever get a chance um it's it's really cool thing to go to and volunteer and the Historical Society meeting the history of the neighborhoods
I thought was really cool too I was looking forward to that too I thought she did eileene always does a great job with that stuff um Jack already talked about the planning board um so with everything going on with what's going on Route 80 I wanted to be proactive um and
Lee and I talked about this and the chief talked about this so we've created a a for lack of a better term a sinkhole ta task force so um it's going to be the chief um Al Allison um councilman salberg uh Dave Novak our planner and a
couple members of ouro historical society and that the purpose is really going to be to evaluate um the minds in town and you know trying to determine if any then present a risk to the public recommend any remediation that might be done in those man on those um mindes so
the the task force are already meeting they're already talking they're Gathering data so I just want the presidents of Rockway to know we're taking a proactive approach to this um to protect the public so um and and to that point tomorrow night um the chief and Alis and I have a call with a couple
of the local towns uh Wharton and Jefferson and I think Mount Arlington um with the do to get updates and as I get updates we will publish them I published something from uh assembly in Bronco earlier today like we'll publish any updates we get we want the public to be
informed um and we'll continue to do that um wanted to read a couple things so we got a nice letter from a resident um I want to reach out to you and thank the town Tri window dial ride service unfortunately I broke my leg in September a great way to start a letter
right um I needed to go in physical therapy three times a week I was not able to drive at the time because I broke a stick shift in my car my left leg was broken I had no idea how I was going to get those appointments and inconveniencing anyone or um or or
spending a fortune on Uber I started to search the internet and stumble upon dial ride I thought you'd be like to know that the service is so valuable and helpful to those in need and in in a bind also the staff I dealt with was amazing all capital letters they were kind courteous helpful and wonderful to
deal with each day I'm so grateful for Susan Mary Brian Todd and Kevin they made a difficult time that I was dealing with Pleasant i al always look forward to seeing them and interacting with them um and and one of the things she said
is one of the things I talked about during my address at the reorg meeting was you know getting this out to more residents getting more residents to be aware of this service and to that point we're going to try and um we're working on a strategy for that now because we really don't have a lot of residents
that use the program and really it's it's out there for people just like this person so um thanks again for the help and outstanding service I received while recovering um I want to let you know a couple events that are coming up Morris County Veteran ID outreach program um
tomorrow uh no Thursday um from 10: a.m. to 2 p.m in our Municipal Building um it's in partnership with the Morris County Clerk's Office uh there's contact information I think we posted this on our on our socials so it's out there on our social media veteran IDs are free of
charge thank you for your service and then um also during that same time it's a senior ID outreach program um senior IDs are discounted to $5 cash only um for the Outreach event again same time from 10:00 a.m. to 2
p.m. at the municipal building um in sponsorship with the clerk's office so again this is posted on our socials if anybody um isn't on Facebook or um or you know the internet you can always call the recreation department and they
can give you the information you need to have um to sign up for that I want to note that the um we received a silver level recognition certificate from the Avenues in motion um and it's the safe routes to school
and our participation in program um earned a a grant and a silver recognition so I'm happy for our engineering department and the great work they did to earn that and that's all I have tonight miss pal yes thank you for the reminder regarding the budget I as well
look forward to a meeting with everybody on that Saturday in March um just as a um wanted to let everyone know that I will be putting a transfer resolution on the next Council agenda in anticipation of the 2025 budget the purpose of the transfer is to move monies that are
unexpended from her last year's 24 budget into the capital Improvement fund so that we can um purchase our Capital Service purchase our Capital um projects through cash rather than having to issue any more debt so that's the reason for that resolution if I I'll put it on next
agenda so that's all I have thank you Miss fronte thank you yes um I wanted to answer the gentleman's question in regards to ordinance 0252 that is an overlay ordinance on the
property that's currently owned by TOMCO out on Route 15 it is to permit um the the use of the property for a hotel as well as a multifam affordable housing
project so uh there was an overlay existing there with an affordable housing component and this amended that inconsistent consistent with our consent order with the fair share housing if you have any more questions come on into the
department um also want to touch on with uh the mayor's uh report on Minds the department of engineering planning and construction do have a healthy um uh you know file on mines uh
collaborated of the the history of mines in Rockaway township since the early 1600s the what information we have has been mapped so if you have any residents that are concerned come on in we'll go over the mines it's not a crystal ball
but it is a compilation of all the information that we have on file um it actually was a collaboration with our late uh mind specialist Gary gardberg who who uh unfortunately passed away last year um and we also have an ordinance that
was developed that um basically prohibits development within 500 feet of a known mine activity so um the developer the proponent even if there's an addition to a structure has to retain a mind specialist to investigate uh the
area and see if there's any anomalies associated with the mining activities um on a personal note I attended a recent wizard event it was entertaining and the uh mayor of the
town was a referee so just putting it out there we will see if we can get our mayor to dust off his uh his black coach's shorts it's been a while you will have a spot in the game should you show
decide Miss elberg I request that you would be there to to support him is that all M fronte yes Mr Tabit thank you council president just a reminder to Residents that uh dog and cat licenses were due January 31st and
we have approximately 900 overdue dog and cat licenses so second notices are going out this week as a reminder and um happy Valentine's Day I know it's a Hallmark holiday to many people but any chance to promote uh kindness
Chief good evening even council president members of the council uh activity for the police department for January 3106 was the number for calls of service activity or entries 88 motor vehicle
crashes 366 motor vehicle encounters five domestic violence incidents 44 fire medic uh or 911 responses seven adult arrests 94 alarm responses two community policing events
1649 residential commercial or school property checks 19 assist other agencies and 168 motor vehicle summonses uh I would also like to thank principal McGovern from the uh dwire
school every year they have a wonderful celebration for the police department where they uh invite us over they give the officers GO bags uh in those GO bags all of the students are kind enough
to write the officers that receive those GO bags letters so I'm going to read you one from one of the students dear police officer I am Kaye thank you for keeping us safe and happy I am in the third grade you help us I hope this makes your
day better really me you really mean something to us thank you so much for helping me and my mom when somebody hit our car you also help us by keeping um by by keeping uh bad
guys uh bad guys away and if you are um and if you're having a bad day this should cheer you up I hope I know you guys are my heroes and keep us happy
and safe and uh so thank you Kylie and all of the students at dwire uh from our officers uh they love to serve our community and do an excellent job uh on that note for officers I have on the if
everybody would travel on the website on the police page you'll find a drop down where we're going to begin a departmental history page so any uh any former uh police officer of Rockway Township uh pictures stories anything
you'd like to uh send our way uh we'd love to have it and honor those who have served from the beginning and we have some very interesting pictures already on there but that's a work in progress but again thank you Mr
n just uh preparing for another storm tonight another one tomorrow night and another one for Saturday so um to answer the question we're getting ongoing salt deliveries we've got uh salt delivered yesterday and today both domes are getting 500 tons a piece um all the
roads in Rock Township get plowed and all of them get salted uh we work through primary secondary tertiary so far down the road um you live on a dead end Street sorry you're at the bottom of a food chain but you are plowed and salted um and we're just plugging along
with with winter that's it how many tons of salt do you use for just like for instance the last storm I I don't want to put you on the spot uh ice storm we probably ran through about uh 400 PS
wow that's a lot of salt exactly Mr Dyer no report tonight thank you wow thank you council president uh fire prevention recently completed our 2024 yearend report and submitted that to the division of fire safety in Trenton they
received it and approved it uh on the fire department side I'm still working through some of the grants that we were awarded last year getting some quotes and and trying to get those pieces put together so I can submit a proposal to finance and get the needed hoses that we
applied for in the sage Grant a couple months ago so progress all the way around thank you Mr coward uh I can just confirm uh what what Al noted I can definitely say a salt purchase was approved
today um I think it was the largest purchase I approved today um and I have nothing further to report yeah I would think salt is not a place where we're going to get you know conservative so just a salt don't fill lasts five storms
around there six a large allm we're using quite a bit of salt yeah I just have a question um so when we make our reports and we ask questions I'm curious we we never
get answers I've heard Council vice president Brooks asked like at the last five meetings about a guard rail and she asked again tonight and I there's no answer is there an answer for that so I think the answer that we gave originally was that there is I believe
30,000 in the 2025 capital budget for guard rail I don't know that it's specific for that particular guard rail um that is that is all I can answer at this point okay uh I'd like to make a motion to adjourn by consensus all in favor meeting
adour never those are the ones when you