e e okay cool uh this meeting is held in accordance with the New Jersey open public meetings act annual notice this meeting was published in the Union County local Source in the nework Star Ledger said notice was posted in the municipal building and a copy on file with the office of the burough clerk fire exits are located in the directions
I'm indicating if you're alerted for fire please move in a calm orderly manner to the nearest smokefree exit proper notice haven't been given the bar clerk is directed to include this statement in the minutes of the meeting Andrew please call the role councilman Petroski here coun counc Johnson pres councilman signell yes councilman rabina
here take that is he here uh Council woman Lions here councilman Patel here mayor signorella uh here please here mayor please lead us in the opening prayer followed by the Pledge of Allegiance we're going to have a quick moment of silence in memory of
D-Day thank you Eternal God grant us thy help and all our duties and perplexities we ask for thy guidance give us thy protection in our dangers and sorrow grant us thy peace amen amen Al to the flag of the United States of America and to rep for it stands one
nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay uh there are no Communications for review this evening uh we are however recognizing Adam uh how do I do the last name Lomi
all right nice Adam Lomi uh 2024 men's Pan American International all around gymnast uh gymnast Champion come on [Applause] up um Coach Joe do you guys want to take
a couple words or okay yeah I want to congratulate Adam uh coach feri brought it to my attention and what a phenomenal thing we're so proud of you in roselt park um I'm very big On Athletics in roselt park and I
like to honor kids that do very well and everything so when coach veneri brought it to my attention I was happy to uh accommodate and bring him up for this uh session of Mayor and counsel so congratulations thank you you want to
say a couple words oh no pressure man all right cool uh well Adam uh just a little certificate of appreciation uh we're very proud of you um I propose we make a statue in your honor just a kidding this is joke but no all right
but seriously awesome work you represent the burough Rosal Park and we're very proud of you man one more round of applause for Adam hey what's going on here [Applause] congratulations okay
um uh may I have a motion to approve meeting minutes pending any corrections so move second all in favor I uh may I have a motion that bills and payrolls be not read and pass for payment so move second all in favor I may have motion to open the public portion on agenda items only
so move second uh all in favor I may I wish to come up and speak on agenda items May do so now sure it's on the agenda sure okay s right over there name and address please
greetings council members mayor signarello and fellow residents my name is Chris Lee I live at 450 Henry Street and I have been a resident and homeowner in Rosell park for almost 10 years I will be addressing resolution 135-24 the Cannabis transfer tax to the
Sewer y thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak tonight I'm before you as a concerned and frustrated member of our community compelled to address the recent shocking 200% increase in our sewer utility necessitating excuse me on our sewer rates necessitating the transfer
of the Cannabis tax this unprecedented hike which came without any prior notice or adequate justification has left many of us reeling and searching for answers the core of this issue lies with the storm sewer system not the sanitary sewer yet the financial burden has been unfairly placed on the sanitary sewer
utility the utility that has build based on our water consumption this bill excuse me this billing method is fundamentally unjust as it includes water used for purposes such as lawn irrigation water that never enters the sewer system seeing as water usage has zero impact on the storm drains using
that metric punishes res residents with lawn requirements unfairly moreover my efforts to seek oversight or intervention from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities have proven futile as they have indicated that they hold no jurisdiction over this matter this leaves us without state
level recourse and places an even greater emphasis on local accountability and transparency the most troubling aspect of this situation however is the mayor's assertion that he was advised not to inform residents about the ongoing problem prior to the decision to raise
rates he is quoted as saying he was ordered by the town attorney to not disclose this pending issue with residents who are expected to pay the decision to keep the populace in the dark is a glaring failure of leadership transparency and proactive communication are the Bedrock of good governance by
withholding critical information the mayor and Council deprived us of the chance to collectively explore alternate Solutions possibly preventing such a drastic rate increase imagine if we had been informed earlier our community could have come together leveraging our Collective resources knowledge and
creativity to find a less burdensome solution we could have applied for Grants sought state or federal assistance or devised a phased approach to address the storm water issue without imposing posing such a significant financial strain on residents without any
notice as Representatives elected to Serve and Protect the interests of this community it is your duty to ensure that decisions of this magnitude are made with full transparency and Resident engagement the current approach has undermined my trust and confidence in your leadership therefore I am calling
for the following immediate actions full disclosure and release of all information regarding the storm sewer issue including the advice given to the mayor and councel the financial analysis that led to the rate increase and any other relevant documents re-evaluation of rates by implementing a temporary
roll back of the rate increase while a thorough re-evaluation is conducted consider more Equitable billing methods that do not charge residents for water that does not enter the sewer system such as discounting water usage from June through August and using other months to average the real use Community
engagement by establishing a task force comprised of councilmen members residents and most importantly experts to explore alternative Solutions and funding sources engage the community in open forums and discussions to ensure transparency and Collective problem
solving early ideas range from Contracting with Elizabeth to keep the system in place a system that has been in the ground for a century perhaps employing federal agencies such as the EPA who may have authority to compel Elizabeth to accept our minute amount of
runoff that they have been accepting for a century an accountability for the mayor and council members who were involved in the decision to withhold information if any impropriety is found appropriate actions should be taken to restore trust in our local government by
taking these steps we can begin to rebuild the trust that has been severely damaged and work together to find a fair and sustainable solution to this issue issue we deserve leaders who prioritize transparency accountability and the well-being of their constituents let
this be opportunity for you to demonstrate your commitment to those principles thank you for your attention and your willingness to address this critical issue headon our community's future depends on it thank you thank you
so I I appreciate your eloquently worded input like there is very little that I disagree on holistically there are several points that I want to address and I've addressed these online I'm going to address them in person um and I
don't know how much time he has but so unfortunately the rest of my time yeah so thank you I appreciate that um so there's a couple things I want to address Point by point and I'm sure there's a lot of people that want to talk about this um if you guys want to talk about it again during your time go for it right so first off um speaking on
this go back yeah well you can s you can hang out there if you want it's up to you okay um so Joe burough attorney uh can you please talk about sort of some of the sensitivity about speaking about this actually filed uh by the town of
Elizabeth against the burough of Rosel Park um once that occurs it's very difficult to have those type of conversations that the gentleman just spoke about because then you're negotiating in public right um those discussions those experts which were
retained which were special counsel for it um engineering engaged in a conversation with the judge and Elizabeth um with regard to the final settlement so it was my direction and special council's direction that the
burrow could not have public conversation about the nature of those discussions the lawsuit itself was a public document it was uh notice was given every time we went into executive session at a public meeting that that was the topic to be t uh talked about
the specifics as to those topics were not for General consumption and I just want to I just want to pause there for a second Joe we also didn't have have the ability to communicate a number because we didn't have a number so Andrew you're the ba um the initial ask in the lawsuit
from Elizabeth was what was the number in back pay somewhere between 30 and 40 million right so I you know we we did speak where we could on this right and talking about some difficulties with neighboring
towns um but it's not like we had a hard number to say the impact is going to be this or the impact is going to be this we negotiated down from4 million to $4 million in retroactive pay and I want to be super clear on what that means right
so the burrow of Rosal Park there's never been any legal agreement for the burrow to run off into Elizabeth right stinks we searched far and wide it's apparently a handshake agreement since 1904 when the burrow was made no documentation of an agreement about 10
years ago city of Elizabeth monitor our flows and started asking for uh a fee right uh and that just to hit one of the things you talked about we did ask can we stay on this and just pay you a fee the fees are exorbitant and
they still don't want us on there right so that was not really an option for us so uh after years of wrangling with multiple administrations and multiple councils they pulled the trigger and filed a lawsuit against us um you know I think it's look it's it's terrible right
like there's no there's no wind here uh this is not something that um like I didn't wake up one morning and say well G whiz I hope the the city of Elizabeth sues us right like and you guys have been here especially this year because the burrow has taken um in some view
controversial steps when it comes to things like marijuana legalization or you know art installations right and I am more than happy to debate the merits of those things back and forth because that is a policy decision that we can talk about is that the right direction for our town is is that the right
direction for our downtown is that the right thing to be spending money on totally understood um but I I feel like there's this misconception that we I've been mayor for six years I'm smart enough to know this point that
whacking people last minute especially the citizens of Rosal Park is not a fun thing if this is something that I could have communicated and soften Landing of believe me I would have like it's just that simple there is no the last thing to say on this on a personal level is
there was no and is no incentive for me to have kept quiet about this if anything as you can see tonight the incentive would have been to start prepping everybody for this last year unfortunately negotiations and lawsuits don't work that way they just don't um
the last thing I want to say one other topic on oversight right so here I'm going to talk to Ken Ken I want you to talk about the billing mechanism and why it's coming through this and I also want you to talk about your position as a CFO who's tenured who was not appointed by me who is audited yearly by independent
Auditors and has oversight from the state and for the fact that we are not allowed to legally raise the water bills unless we have an expense and we haven't done that in the last 13 years so I gave you a loaded topic but I'd like you to hit on those things well it's an annual
requirement of the state of New Jersey that we have an annual audit done by an outside auditor uh currently Supply cloning company they're based out of West New Jersey uh our audit gets filed with the state and if there are any recommendations we have to file what's
called a corrective action plan annually um as far as the rate the rate has been based on water consumption since before my time here um I was appointed previously by mayor Joe dioro who also appointed me for tenure uh I've
worked with several governing bodies I've been here part-time since 2005 full time since January of 07 um we had a 13-year span where we did not raise rates in sore at all we were able to balance things out this year
unfortunately with this lawsuit we we had no choice we had no choice and there's other factors in there also but one of the main ones is the this this lawsuit so that's how we based it um and going forward but why
why it was done through sore because it's in a combined sour system and Elizabeth we have to separate that now and we have a better opportunity to get grants and funding going through the sore utility now here are a couple things and I want to front run this because I I
that's not to say I disagree with anybody's frustration here especially not yours is Chris there are a couple things that we tried to do this year that I think we need to improve on going forward if they're going to be heftier payments unfortunately again we settled this lawsuit a month ago right right so
we had to move pretty quickly I do think since the payments are heftier I'm really pushing next year to do four payments versus just the two um you know the other thing is um you know the bill might not stay flat this year next year we're going to actively look through all
measures to try and lower that um I just wrote a note that I can't read oh the other thing is measuring the time of year to measure I do think there's valid input on that um I think that's worth exploring um I think that's something we should explore going forward
um and oh the other thing I just really want to mention so people keep talking about grants yes there are 100% grants out there I I I don't want to sticker shock anybody but this is a to separate which we legally have to do from the
city of Elizabeth this is a $20 million project right that we need to do our own piping from the burrow of Rosal Park directly into the Elizabeth river we are actively looking at all grants that we can for that through DP through State funding whatever means possible Grant I
you know I don't I've never heard of a grant Andrew correct me if I'm wrong grants can cover infrastructure projects they do not cover lawsuit settlements correct right there are direct AIDS potentially that can settle that but you know again this is something that a
grant does not solve and just the last thing and I promise I'll shut up but there's like really a lot of important things that you guys need to hit cuz look you can beat me up for whatever you want to as mayor and I know there's plenty of reasons why somebody here hasn't voted me or doesn't like me here
got it you know and we can have that philosophical debate but the idea that I take some joy in raising everybody's rates when I've been thumping my chest about keeping tax Flats it just doesn't jive intellectually and the last thing I want to say is people keep talking about whether we did it in the utility or we
did it just paid for it elsewhere the burrow of Rosell Park sadly would be paying for it one way or the other right so we either pay for the fine through the utility or we pay it out of operational budget in the burrow you would see either an increase on your property tax which we tried to keep
relatively flat this year wasn't perfect but it wasn't bad either uh or it's through the utility rate so there is no magic pot of money for a lawsuit and that's the sucky hard fact was going to
say a naugher word but really trying to because I'm frustrated too um any other public commentary on uh feel free to come up on agenda items only I just have a little question just name and address please for the record before you start Arlene Brown 475 East
Westfield Avenue Rosell Park yep why are we building $150,000 statue cuz that's a little bit of money this ma'am this is not so I will address that today are we voting anything that has to do with the you today no no I finish my sentence no you may not because it's not relevant to
the agenda you may come afterwards I was going to apply it to this million dollar go ahead sewer bill okay because every little bit of Chunk you take out of that sewer bill is a little bit less so everybody let's see how the the crowd reacts I I'll spoiler alert we're not
doing the Rick Barry statue got it heard everybody Council doesn't want to do it you're welcome got it got it make it easy but I do want to s right so so I do want to say there's also there's two pots of money right so
that is a capital expense that we would have done that is avoided right that does not help operational expenses guys this is important right I really want I want if you guys are going to be upset about stuff I want you to understand what's going on here there are two pots of money so there are capital expenses
for roadwork Bridges tunnels whatever we do that is uh we put for and we bond out and there are operational expenses that go to your direct property taxes those are two totally separate pots of money so yes are we saving $150,000 on a statue yes is it going to provide direct
property tax relief this year on the utilities or on your property tax no can we apply it to this project in the future 100% I heard you I heard Council thank you for your advocacy I'm not a total uh gados I listen sometimes the
Rick Barry statue's Dead all right got it anybody else want to talk about anything on the agenda cados means hard head for those of you who are not Italian ameran how you doing George Ramirez 500
East clav yes sir uh so in regards to the police cars that we're buying yep so we're paying for two cars 87 for each car yep why are we paying a th000 more for a 2023 which is a year
older so I I just want to bring up uh Chief Reno to talk about some of the importance of some of our aging vehicles and then as far as the purchasing I'll default to the CPA um is it on click the
button got it got it yeah it's on now I prepared myself for this cuz I expected it but um so just uh just for the record we have 11 patrol cars that that are on the line that are shared between a day shift and night shift they run some of them run 24
247 um we have uh two of those patrol cars are over 120,000 Mi uh so they're not Fleet worthy uh not trusted to go to your house if somebody had a heart attack or anything like that we have to worry about getting to the getting to the point oh yeah yeah sorry it's your time so my question is not why we're
them why are we paying more for a 2023 compared to 2024 Andrew so the the the reason for that is two reasons one is the availability of vehicles which is very poor in the state of New Jersey so you we have to try to buy the vehicles where we can and when we can the
difference between a 2023 and a 2024 police interceptor is very low uh what do you mean there's almost no difference in the options can I can I depreciation value no I worked in the car business brand new oh well I worked in the car business for 20 years doesn't matter if the car is brand new the warranty starts
from 2023 right starts from when you buy it no so if it's a 2023 it's from when you speak you're speaking from the the from a general consumer we buy from a co-op these are different terms I get it but still
resale value on a 2023 much less we we don't resell these we put them into circulation or we auction them or you put them at the DBW lot to ride away so that's actually a really good point so let me address that so when when a vehicle is decommissioned when it's unfit for any further service
we do put them at the DPW right and I've got some inquiries about some old pictures that are circulating on Facebook I think it's important to note that those vehicles are decommissioned mostly and primarily for safety and then they're kept at DPW because in Li of buying brand new parts especially with
crown vix and we have very few Crown vix anymore those parts become very expensive cuz they're not made anymore so we utilize those right and then when they're completely devoid of any value we either auction them to to yeah or or we scrap them and most times when we
scrap them we allow the fire department to train on them cut them up and then we scrap them all right what about that Tahoe that Tahoe looks pretty new I mean that's not drivable what's wrong with that there may be look there I I don't want to get into a real big dialogue here but there may be there's there's one Tahoe up there was a hybrid yeah a
little bit of a nightmare the the hybrid so the Hybrid engine it's like more it just keeps sputtering out right so it's one of those things where it's more expensive to fix than it's worth it's certainly not something that could be a it could be potentially like a um an inspector's vehicle but it's certainly
not for made for a response you're saying it's more expensive to fix that car than it worth and it was also a donation so we didn't pay for that vehicle so that was a donation from that save on another expense that we have to make for another car no yeah but I I understand but once again so this is I mean they made those I don't know why
we're getting into this but but they made those h they made those hybrids for like two years right and those aren't I mean those aren't capable of responding to a scene anyway right not only that but the batteries for to replacement for those for those Vehicles were like eight8 to
$10,000 just just car business for 20 years I know how the cost of it is and all that but I can tell you right now that that car batteries have a 10year warranty on them so you could tell me you can reach out to GMC or whoever and get one replaced no or get it fixed yeah
I mean these are also First Response Vehicles where people's lives are on the line so I'd rather buy a new vehicle than risk a a how old is that vehicle it's like a 2016 yeah patch together 2016 vehicle okay some things you can't put a price on H the reason we brought it up is well I brought it up is because
it looks like there's a lot of excess expenditure in this town I'd love to between the ri Barry the banners and and a lot of things are coming up and instead of can you give some examples some concrete ones to yeah so so the two police vehicles you think
are are no no the Rick Barry statute we're not buying we're not buying that got banners we're not buying those give me another one also well neglia you have doing through the chair mayor he he asked a question let's answer the question that's not part of come back at
the end okay thank you very much yeah so move anybody else want to come up and speak on any agenda items yeah you can go back moving on to reports I'm seeing no
one uh may have a motion to close the public portion on agenda items only so move second all in favor hi uh okay Andrew you want to start us off thank you mayor um I do want to make a note uh just a correction from the
last meeting so unfortunately and I I will take the blame for the error uh multiple times and I will say multiple times because I kicked off I think part of the conversation about the uh next Lane use board meeting uh we announced it to be
um uh June 17th uh we rep we repeated that about uh 20 times uh it is not the 17th the next regular meeting of the municipal L use board is Monday the 24th unfortunately Municipal L board meetings are typically the third Monday of the
month uh that 17th is the third Monday of that month uh but the regular meeting for June is Monday the 24th so in case anyone does show up on the 17th there will be no meeting it will be the following week uh anyone who is uh who arrives at the building because they may
have seen that broadcast uh there will be a sign on the front door indicating such that the meeting is the following week uh in addition we put out Communications on social media indicating that the regular meeting is the next week so I personally apologize to the governing body uh it was a
mistake on my part um the rest of my uh uh the rest of my report is uh fairly light uh we did have the regular uh primary this past Tuesday uh fairly uneventful was a presidential primary um other positions on the ballot um
certification will be in a couple of weeks uh just a reminder on the process so ballots do arrive at the Board of Elections office within 48 Hours of the close of polls those are count canvased uh uh and then they're counted if they're found to be valid votes um and
then there's also provisional ballot so I know uh specifically with Republican committee um there were some wrin votes uh there will be some positions that are written in if those candidates choose to accept uh none of those right-in candidates yet are elected uh they will be elected when the results are
certified onor about the 17th of this month um uh two other things I uh want to note just uh for the record um we did have a little bit of a discontinuity with our Animal Control uh Services um uh something on the agenda is a is a
layoff of our Animal control officer who of us know very closely Alex Balaban um without going into a lot of details about Alex um he suffered a little bit of a medical episode uh spoke to him as early as this week he's doing much better um he's unable to continue doing
the services that he was doing before um so we have agreed this is the best way to part ways we did bring on a provider uh a very professional well-versed provider within the state of New Jersey um they have uh they're based in Flemington but they have multiple response areas from different parts of
the state I think ours is strategically located in in Union Township so the response is good they've been responding to Rosell Park since Saturday when the contract began I just want to wish Alex all the best he's volunteered his services to the extent he can do them in the future and I think on behalf of everybody sitting up here uh we thank
him for his service I also as the administrator want to thank um superintendent bamon who couldn't be here tonight um his contract will be ending at the end of June um he uh is uh is again his contract is ending he's
found a better opportunity for himself um and he's doing right by his family um the burrow is uh exercising uh some options with the burough of kennworth to bring on a shared service um that will fill that void um and I wish Paul the
best uh and thank him for his friendship and professionalism for the time that we worked together and that's all I have at this point mayor do we have on the agenda tonight or that's okay got it okay uh Ken thank you mayor as everybody knows the sord bills have been mailed they are due
July 1st for the first installment and the second installment is due October 1st that's all I have mayor okay uh Ruben thank you may good evening everybody uh on May 2nd more than 25
seniors with visited Ro robertt Robert Gordon Elementary School for a spring breakfast uh the event included Refreshments games and conversation with students uh thank you Robert Gordon Elementary School for hosting this event uh on May second 2nd more than 40
seniors enjoyed the perfect afternoon at the casano center the afternoon was filled with refreshments and a performance by Barbara Harris of toys uh thanks to kasano Center Association for sponsoring the event on May 20th and 21st
more than 120 residents received service at the New Jersey MVC mobile unit thanks to New Jersey MVC for their partnership uh they are scheduled to visit uh again on July 22nd and July 23rd uh during the summer we have planed
uh plan uh day trips for our seniors 55 and older to reserve your uh their your seats or for more information please visit our social media page or the center uh due to the Rainy forecast and we had to cancel the annual Memorial Day
parade and host the service uh inside the casano center uh thanks to all who came together to honor and remember the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country uh thank you Roso Park Police Department fire department DPW Church of
the Assumption un Methodist Church Michaela Tiffany and Ros High School Marching B for their support and rupin just uh I hate to pause you real quick but it is uh I'd rather talk about this now than after um so now that we're not spending money on the Rick Barry statue
I thought one thing that might be worth considering spending money on which would be much cheaper is I believe former mayor Carl Hokinson had a good idea of adding we have all the Armed Forces recognized uh in Veterans Memorial Library we are missing the newly founded space force so I think
it's worth considering getting a quote for that and seeing if that's something that we could spend on absolutely y absolutely um this Saturday the burough will be holding a pride flag residence ceremony and celebration at the library
the event will run from noon to 1:00 p.m. and a uh features a pride month proclamation of free ice cream social and a guest speaker from the rosopa high school GSA club uh gay St Alliance Club on June 15 the diversity and inclusion
committee will hold the second Annual junti Festival from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Gazebo Park the event includes live entertainment food a Garden vendors games educational resources and much more the event is open to the public and all are welcome
to join the festivities on Monday July 1st the burough will be uh celebrating the Independence Day celebration at Rosal Park High School har field the event is free and open to the public and includes food trucks live music from the purple shadows and more the festivi is kick off
uh kicks off at 500 P p.m uh fireworks begins at dusk with the flag raising ceremony uh specific details on the road closures will be announced by the rosar police department at the later date uh the event would not have been possible without the sponsorship of the Union
County Commissioners uh Brickwater neglia group uh col colar engineers and design and Suburban Disposal and on Saturday July 6 the center will be hosting a blood drive from 10:00 a.m. to 6: p.m. at the casano
center we are urging residents to to come and donate to help those in need uh don will receive tickets to the New York mats games and uh uh Mets t-shirts uh while supplies last and thank you New York blood center for their partnership
and that concludes my report mayor uh any questions for rupin excellent work uh it was a bummer that we had to do things inside but I think it was a nice ceremony despite that so tip my hat as always Mr sha thank you mayor thank you
rich thank you mayor good evening everyone good evening so I know everyone likes to hear the numbers that's the big thing Okay so we've been as you know we've been very busy in the uh code department so for the month of May we
issued 159 permits total revenue through the end of May is 49,1 19 sewer connection fees year-to date $176,200 co- development fees
$2,384 I issued 12 uniform construction code violations for the month on the property maintenance side we were very busy uh 135 violations issued for the month of May 16 court dispositions with fines year-to date of
$1,029 13 Court summonses were issued um I have some good news uh building a at 10 West Westfield the Meridia project has a TCO for floors three and four the reason pause do they have so they have sufficient parking on
site for three and four well let me finish got it sorry they have sufficient parking for floors three and four the reason why they don't have floors two and five is because they do not have sufficient got it so if they were to do I'm just making something up uh
valet parking or something like that they could potentially get I'm just they don't have the parking spaces because the under the uh Redevelopment plan the um you know as you know rsis is 1 and where is that the the parking you're going to utilize is the one under the building would be the first wave Okay
cool so they're they may be reaching out to some businesses in the area or some Properties or us yeah so just be prepared they may get that yeah we'll consider it if it comes to us the other thing they may try to do is Building B is not going to be ready for occupancy
till the end of the year they are going to attempt to finalize the parking garage including all fire suppression systems throughout the building before and then use that those spaces to utilize okay while the deck's being built okay so those are their options
right now okay um so that's moving along very nicely the fern Moore project is moving along they're anticip they they ran into a little delay but they're anticipating possibly July for a TCO for I believe that's building
a building yeah that's building a Building B is closer to us um and and things are moving the hunter project as you can see is moving along quite nicely they're framing so on the zoning completeness reviews we did one zoning completeness
review for um VC next week it's 243 is Westfield Avenue that is going they're proposing a retail business with one apartment got it so that would be that's the just for everybody uh if you're in the area that is the end of Berwin right
Berwin and so that's the the ghost house there the one that used to be in optimo and uh lrat so and that concludes my report any questions for Rich mayor I just have um there were some questions at the last meeting Rich um and if you could stick
around just for the ordinance uh the public hearing on the ordinance 72 I'm sorry 2782 could you just talk about um some of the Amendments as they relate to uh Roofing and Siding yes
absolutely so as you're aware uh Mr administrator these amendments really did not include any changes in the fees these were structural changes based upon an audit we received and audit comments by the Bureau of Regulatory Affairs um
The Bureau is visiting every municipality and every construction code agency throughout the state to review fee schedules and the like and operations and making sure they're properly staffed and so on and so forth so the one particular item that you
questioned me on was item number one which talks about Roofing and Siding for all use groups other than R3 and R5 so let me clarify what R3 and R5 is use groups R3 and R5 are single and two family dwellings so in the uniform
construction code Roofing replacements or new roofs or new siding do not require permits they're considered ordinary maintenance that is why that's written that way because that if the fees are only charged for use groups outside of R3 and R5 which are one and
two family dwellings okay some of the other changes are minor um if you go to item number two the one item that does require a permit is a product known as polypropylene siding which using a brand brand name
would be something like Cedar Impressions that is a petroleum based product so that has a decent Flames spread rating um and that's why that does require a permit because we have to look at clearances to the electrical
services coming in as it relates to those that type of siding so that does require a permit that isn't ordinary maintenance and that would include one and two family dwellings and uh some of the other changes I think I think we're good those were
those were just two concerns that came up specifically at the last meeting if you could just stick around for that real rting stuff yeah I'm sorry I'm chipping Co you want to go hang out over there yeah okay uh who I haven't done reiran fro right coach you want to come
up first I'm saving the best for last Chief good evening everyone good evening I'd like to thank mayor signarello and Town Council for giving me the opportunity to provide a brief update the goal of the Rosel Park Recreation Department is to meet the recreational needs of our community as part of our
Department's effort to beet these needs and expand community service our department provides a wide range of programs membership and Recreation we currently have over 515 recreational members homework and after care we currently have over 136 students daily
we are transporting chaperoning over 87 students once homework is complete we organize science fund arts and crafts Bingo board games kinetic sand magnetic tiles drawing Marble Runs Legos individual and team games to name a few
the asyc has either hosted or accommodated the following meetings or events Boy and Girl Scouts various Rosal Park School District PTA meetings recreational committee diversity and inclusion community fairs and events
Recreational Sports Park parties cpeg diversity pro wrestling event Sherman PTA 3D through fifth grade dance and DMV to name a few the following spring recreational programming has started Elementary and
Middle School tennis Spring Middle School High School Adult strength and conditioning spring volleyball adult basketball and offseason wrestling I'd be remiss to not mention members please join us tomorrow for our annual four squares tournament in the asyc at 400
p.m with our special guest Mr Carol our summer programming will be as follows boys and girls basketball coed tennis boys and girls wrestling elementary middle school and high school volleyball Elementary Middle School and adult strength and conditioning in addition
the asyc will be accommodating some of the Cassano Center summer programming because of uh hosting early voting we remain committed to providing the best possible care and programming we believe our Department offers our community members a wide variety activities and
programming as always you can contact the recreation department at Recreation Rosel park.net with any questions or concerns this completes our June Recreational department update I'd be happy to answer any questions any questions yes what time does the four
square uh begin four o' four o'clock and Mr Carol Mr Car special guest Mr car wow he was he's in the building tonight don't know if he was here for four square but he's here I know I know coach Mr car's rules sewer or weed what are you here for a little bit of both fair
enough Mr Carol is the teacher Robert Gordon okay great thank you you're welcome thanks coach great job thank you thank you evening mayor council good evening previously submitted my 2024 May 2024 uh report so
I'll just be brief on a couple highlighted items on May 9th I attended a send off ceremony for the National Police Unity Bike Tour in Jersey City Sergeant Joshua madrano was one of the participants in the tour and this agency is very proud of his accomplishment he represented our
town and this agency professionally on May 22nd the Rosal Park traffic safety unit conducted a pedestrian decoy safety education traffic detail the operation was conducted according to the national highway traffic safety administration and the New Jersey Division of highway
traffic safety standards ards there were four four officers conducting the traffic stops and one decoy the operation took place over a 4-Hour period and two heavily traveled areas for pedestrians in the area of Locus Street and West Webster Avenue and chestna Street and West Lincoln Avenue near the train station the results were
27 motor vehicle stops resulting in 14 summonses and 13 warnings issued on May 28th the Rosal Park Police Department conducted a motor vehicle inspection checkpoint with the assistance of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission mobile Inspection Team on fud Avenue West Webster
checkpoint resulted in 34 motorists getting their vehicles inspected and 17 summonses issued for other violations on May 29th the Rosal Park traffic safety unit again conducted another pedestrian decoy safety and education traffic detail the operation conducted and according to the national
highway traffic safety administration New Jersey Division of highway traffic safety standards there were three officers conducting this traffic stop in one decoy the operation took place over a three-hour period into two heavily traveled areas for pedestrians in the area of Locust Street and West Webster Avenue the results were 13 motor vehicle
stops resulting in four summonses and nine warnings mayor that's all I have any questions for the chief thank you sir thank you thank you uh okay uh did I me say anything in
okay co uh may have a motion to accept the reports of departments as submitted so move second all in favor I I uh please read ordinance number 2781 by title yes mayor ordinance 2781 is an ordinance for second reading and public hearing an ordinance amending ordinance number 2760 fixing the salary ranges of
non-union employees and officials of the bur Rosel Park in the county vien state of New Jersey may have a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance number 2781 so move second all in favor I would anybody like to come up and speak on this ordinance specifically I'm seeing no one may I
have a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance number 2781 so move second all in favor I uh may have a motion to adopt ordance number 2781 so move second uh is there any discussion ready to call the roll yeah
call the roll councilman pataski yes councilman Johnson yes councilman sarella yes councilman rabina yes councilwoman Lions yes councilman Patel yes six V the affirmative mayor the ordinance is adopted please read ordinance number 2782 by title yes mayor ordinance 2782 is an ordinance for second reading and public hearing an
ordinance mending chapter 16 of the code of the B Rosell Park entitled building and construction uh may I have a motion to open the public hearing on ordinance number 2782 so move second uh all in favor I would anybody like to come up and speak on this ordinance
specifically okay seeing no one may have a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance number 2782 so move second all in favor I I may motion to adopt ORD number 2782 so move second is there any discussion Andrew please call the r councilman patoski yes councilman
Johnson yes councilman signorella yes councilman Rina yes Council Lions yes councilman Patel yes five vot sorry six votes in the affirmative mayor the ordinance is adopted okay please read ordinance number 2783 by title yes mayor ordinance 2783 is an ordinance amending
chapter 31 of the code of the bur Rosel Park as mandated by the njd entitled storm water control uh is there any discussion Andrew uh this one's coming from Trenton uh our overlords there uh can you please just give us the 30 second Pitch on what's going on here and
what we need to comply with yeah so um there is an annual renewal of our permit with the D um as a stormwater operator not related to uh some of the issues that we're talking about um just the fact that we have a storm water system
um so there's a permit the D ISU it's called an a tier a ms4 permit um every year when you do your renewal of this permit they find or they look for things that you should be doing differently or codified differently so in July of 2023
D issued a new model ordinance and what a model ordinance is is a very soft way of the D saying adopt this um so we didn't adopt it in July of 2023 uh when we renewed the permit they said it is time for you to uh enact some of these
Provisions uh we actually haven't amended our storm water Control Ordinance in some time so this brings it just up to what the d d expects uh the standards to be um however um in in addition to what's codified in our code
when uh there are major projects that are reviewed they're always reviewed based off of the prevailing storm water standards in the state um so this really just adopts what the model ordinances that D wants to see on the books with the local municipalities got it thank you is there any
discussion please call the roll I need a motion oh uh yeah a motion to adopt some move second uh can you can you actually uh what do I need to do what did I miss when it'll be hered oh I
for May I have a motion to approve ordinance number 2783 for introduction fix the date for second reading and public hearing as June 20th 2024 so move second I got it okay is there any discussion Council Petroski yes councilman Johnson yes councilman
signarello yes councilman Robina yes councilwoman Lions yes councilman Patel yes six vot confirmed mayor the ordinance is introduced 2784 mayor ordinance 2784 is ordinance for introduction ording uh ordinance amending the code of the bur Rosel Park establishing a new chapter 21 as
mandated by the njd entitled privately owned salt storage may have motion to approve ordinance number 2784 for introduction fix the date for second reading and public hearing as June 20th 2024 so move second is there any discussion this is functionally similar story functionally similar uh different
entirely in what it tries to achieve it really for the most part other than the provision that app updating our codes based on what the state expects yes and if you if if a resident were to read it they're going to be very concerned potentially uh it's not something to be overly concerned about unless you keep your storage assault loose in your yard
got it any further discussion riveting stuff call the roll councilman Petroski yes councilman Johnson yes councilman signarello yes councilman Rina yes councilwoman Lions yes councilman Patel yes six V in the affirmative mayor the ordinance is introduced ordinance 2785
please mayor ordinance 2785 is an ordinance amending chapter 26 of the code of the burough Rosell Park entitled trees establishing a new section two as mandated by the njd entitled private tree removal and replacement may have a motion to approve ordance number 275 for introduction fix the date for second
reading and public hearing as June 20th 2024 so move second there any discussion I'm going to take a crack at what this one is um just because I think don't normally have an audience like this might as well get this out as many people as I can um not something I love but one again something that's getting
mandated top down so we are required to now have an ordinance whereby if you take out a tree uh so normally if you have a tree that's dying a tree that is dying or problematic you can call us and we will take care of it in front of your house especially if it's in the town
right away if it is on your private property it is your responsibility from now on state mandate that you need to get a a permit from us to remove that um and then if you remove it then there's a certain calculation based on the size of
the tree that you need to plant new trees or you can pay to pay into our tree trust fund which we will use those funds to buy more trees so not fun is what it is I mean I like trees too yeah okay thank you all right clap for the
trees there we go yeah all right thanks Janet uh is there any discussion no col the roll councilman patoski yes councilman Johnson yes councilman sella yes councilman Rina yes councilwoman Lions
yes councilman Patel yes six affirmative May the ordinance is introduced okay uh all matters listed with an Asis are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the council and will be approved by one motion there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the governing body sell requests in which case the
item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda as part of the general orders please read all resolutions listed on the consent agenda by title yes mayor resolution 13524 is directing the Chief Financial Officer to apply all 2024 Revenue received from the local cannabis transfer tax and user tax
to offset the 2025 sewer utility budget to the extent permitted by law resolution 13624 is waving permit requirements and fees established in section 4-10 of the municipal code for pedalers participating in any public events hosted or co-hosted by the B Rosal Park during calendar year 2024
resolution 13724 is appointing Paul M Kisa to as a part-time covering electrical subcode and building subcode inspector resolution 13824 is authorizing directing and otherwise ratifying and confirming the actions of the chief administrative officer and instituting a layoff action including
one animal control officer resolution 13924 is approving the insertion of a clean communities program Grant as a special item of Revenue in the 2024 Municipal budget in the amount of $ 28,6 7822 resolution 14024 is approving the insertion of a uni County means Green
community garden program Grant as a special item of Revenue in the 2024 Municipal budget in the amount of $250 resolution 14124 is authorizing the purchase of two 2024 Ford police interceptors from pramis Ford Inc pursuant to Educational Service Commission of New Jersey Co-op contract
23- I'm sorry 23 24-11 in an amount not to exceed $885 7480 resolution 14224 is authorizing the shared service agreement with the burough of Kenworth for the position of superintendent of Public Works resolution 14324 is authorized in
renewal of an alcoholic beverage control license number 2015 33106 ocean Castle Inc doing business as vintage Italian restaurant and Catering for the 2024 2025 licensing term resolution 14424 is authorizing renewal of inactive Alcoholic Beverage Control license
number 2015 3325 casos Tavern 2 Inc doing business as casos Tavern 2 for the 2425 licensing term in Conformity with the administrative order 20243 issued by the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control granting blank at 1239 relief to inative
municipally issued Class C retail licenses and establishing cour tiles under Public Law 2023 29 chapter 290 resolution 14524 is renewing authorizing renewal of Alcoholic Beverage Control license number 2015 4433 gajani Inc doing business as Rosell Park Liquors
and food for the 2024 2025 licensing term resolution 14624 is authorizing renewal of Alcoholic Beverage Control license number 2015 44139 Chestnut Street Spirits LLC doing business as Ros of Park wines and spirits for the 2425 licensing term resolution 14724 is
authorizing renewal of Alcoholic Beverage Control license number 2015 3353 frenches frenches bar grill Inc doing business as frenches bar and grill for the 2425 licensing term resolution 14824 is authorizing renewal of inactive Alcoholic Beverage Control license
number 2015 33614 CAF C Rosal Park LLC for the 2425 licensing term in Conformity with administrative order number 24-3 is issued to by the New Jersey Division Alcoholic Beverage Control granting blanket 1239 relief to act of
municipally issued Class C retail licenses licenses and establishing cour tiles under Public Law 2023 chapter 290 resolution 14924 to authorizing renewal of Alcoholic Beverage Control license number 2015 4418 Rosal Park Liquors LLC
doing business as Rosal Park Liquors for the 2425 licensing term resolution 15024 is awarding a professional service contract to the negly group for for preliminary professional engineering and surveying services for the project improvements to AER Park and it amount not to exceed $50,000 resolution 15124
is awarding a Professional Services contract to the neglia group for professional engineering services including surveying design and construction management for the project improvements to Boy Scout Park in an amount not to exceed $226,300 resolution 15224 is awarding of Professional Services contract to the
negia group for professional engineering services including surveying design and construction management for the project improvements to Grant Avenue year 50 cdbg an amount not to exceed 86,87 24 is authorizing Professional Services contract to the ne group for professional engineering services
including survey design and construction management for the project improvements to Avon Street and Berwin Street fiscal year 2024 NJ do an amount not to exceed $11,250 resolution 15424 is awarding a professional service contract to the neglia group for professional engineering services including survey
design and architectural services for the project improvements to Firehouse number three an amount not to exceed $225,000 resolution 15524 is authorizing renewal of Alcoholic Beverage Control license number 25 31181 West End Community Center doing business as West End
Community Center for the 2425 licensing term resolution 15624 is authorizing renewal of Alcoholic Beverage Control license number 2015 3 3348 Willow KC LLC doing business as Sun Tavern for the 2425 licensing term resolution 15724 is
author authorizing the purchase of 2023 Ford police interceptor from neelon Ford of marown Inc pursuant to Mars County Co-op contract number 15-a in an amount not to exceed $ 45,3 55 okay uh do any members oh I'm going to remove some first but do any members
wish to have any items removed from the Cass agenda so I'm removing 14224 144 and 147 anybody else anything else yeah yep 135 oh yep that's a good one too missed that one
uh okay cool uh may I have a motion to approve the resolutions remaining on the consent agenda so move second all in favor hi hi okay may I have a motion to adopt resolution 135-24 so move second uh uh is there any
discussion so let me te this up um uh this is not a vote on whether or not we like cannabis in Rosal Park um this is not a vote supporting the number of cannabis retailers in Rosal Park the idea here is as we've said exploring all
avenues to try and offset some of the pain that's been caused by the storm waterer system so just for all of you guys who might not know I'll bring you up to speed there have been three conditional potential licenses for class 5 sales of marijuana right uh one was passed by the land use board is
currently being challenged in court there's another one if you feel passionately about go check it out on the website uh June 24th June 24th June 24th come here uh there's a reason why we made them conditional approvals have your voice be heard and then the final
potentially would be the existing so just so everybody's clear there's a lot of uh rumors around this Breakwater is an existing uh medical marijuana place that's been existing since 2021 they would like to convert to sell adult use and medical use um the building they are
building right next to it they are moving to it's not going to be two facilities right next to each other the building they're in is temporary they'll be knocking down all that is good context for I think just the discussion here we are legally allowed to get 2% of their revenue uh as an additional tax
right people have been asking left right and Center what's this good for what is this good for what are we doing with this right so if I'm not saying all three are going to get passed but let's just assume one gets passed um it is uh ballpark from what I've heard from uh
somebody who's doing in the area these institutions can do about half a million dollars in Revenue a month right so 2% of that could be what the Math's like 120k we get find find from the city of Elizabeth like
350k yeah the settlement is 350k about a year what what for 11 years yeah for 11 years so I'm not saying that this is this is me trying to get creative to try and help solve a problem right um and if no marijuana places get passed this year
I don't know what's funny about about this like it's it's really trying to help here but okay totally totally uh uh I mean you're laughing yeah it's I have I have I have I have the stage yeah I have the stage got
it yep um so uh look if none of them get passed then nobody need get directed to that it's as simple as that so uh anybody else want to yeah you want to go goad okay I have a question about the medical dispens break water right now is Medical
um are we taking the tax from the medical are we allowed to we are allowed to I think it's kind of unethical to to tax something that like if you're going there you legitimately you could be a cancer patient you could be whatever right P PTSD I personally feel like it's
unethical to add an extra tax on something that people really need for medical reasons um you know we could always revisit that but I it's something that I'm not in favor of so right now we don't collect right now would you not collect 2% on the medical sales is it just like any medical uh places that we don't collect tax on uh urgent care we
don't collect tax on Urgent Care is that uh no I mean they pay property taxes okay yeah I just yeah did you have something that no I I thank you for being transparent and saying that um just in regards to uh what it was and
and what it means and trying to help that out and even if you don't agree with it like I don't um that if that could help in some way um if that passes but I just want to say thank you yep no worries uh call the rooll councilman
Petroski yes councilman Johnson yes councilman signell yes councilman Rina yes councilwoman Lions yes councilman Patel yes six votes in affirmative mayor the resolution is adopted okay may I have a motion to adopt resolution is um I I we talk a lot about costs and
how much uh we spend here in Rosel Park um this would be another cost cutting measure um so we have a pretty slim Department of Public Works now um we are looking to enter so we're putting a little bit of cart before the horse here
but I wanted to put this on because people like transparency and I want to make sure that you guys hear it first for whoever's watching and whoever's here um we're looking to enter a six-month agreement with the bur of Kenworth to share our superintendent of public works right so he would manage the Public Works in Kenworth he would
manage the Public Works in Rosal Park um we'd have him a shared resource for those of us who are worried about how much we're spending this is I don't know Andrew how many shared services agreement have have we in in the last six years probably the third or fourth one yeah yeah at least so we we're going
to look to save probably in the tune of another 50 to 60k by doing this um which I think is good for the burrow we're doing it in a six-month time frame to see if it works out if it doesn't work out we'll revert the other way um but I think this is another really important step in helping slim the burrow down um
you know we are already working with a smaller piece of the pie than other entities uh in the burrow but nonetheless we work with what we got and we have done for those of us who are concerned about waste I don't know anybody in my lifetime in the burough of Rosal Park who's actually eliminated roles in the bur of Rosal Park
we've eliminated five roles through going through County shared services and saving 170k in run rate Revenue that was the first year I got here um so we are actively looking to save money and this is one of those uh ways to do that so any further discussion I have a quick
question yeah is he going to be available like to us so we can yeah yeah 100% way we just just like just like whatever else I mean look I I'd say I the one thing that I asked with Paul that I think is kind a good workflow is check we have a secretary for reason
right so I love it when Joe P he calls Debbie and then when Paul's in the office it gets to them I think that's the best way to do it just even if we had our own dedicated one but look it's it's Rosell Park and the you know I got my Ashwood a folks here who are staring
at me with stink faces but but we get is right over there right so it's not far to get uh from one to the other so he will be available on call he's like whenever you need me I'll come Sundays on emergencies but I do think best protocol is call Debbie sounds good okay
please call the councilman Petroski yes councilman Johnson yes councilman signorella yes councilman Robina yes councilwoman Lions yes councilman Patel yes 6 V the affirmative mayor the resolution is adopted okay uh may have a motion to adopt resolution 14424 so
move uh is there a second some whatever can you count that Joe P got the first got the motion is there a second I thought I said it got it whatever I just didn't hear it second um I just had a question so uh while I've been getting eviscerated on the public forums this
week Rich um I noticed that somebody was saying that something's happening at casos do you know of any permits that are taken out there or anything like that okay I mean look I hope they're doing something right like we've been okay can you just ask Judy or something
like that if we've okay cool yeah thank you that was it um uh Andrew coll Council patoski yes councilman Johnson yes councilman Ella yes councilman Robina yes councilwoman Lions yes councilman Patel yes six votes in
the affirmative mayor the resolution is adopted does the council president need to call for this okay okay okay uh could I have a motion to accept resolution 147 so moves second discussion
no discussion okay call the r all right Council troski yes councilman Johnson yes councilman signell I'll be abstaining abstaining councilman rabina yes councilman Lions yes councilman
Patel yes five votes in the affirmative one abstention the resolution is adopted okay uh councilman Patel you wanted to start off right go for it yep um good evening I attended the ribbon cutting event uh for Dow Lings if you
haven't checked them out yet make sure to stop by on May 27th I attended the memoral day service thanks to everyone who came out to the service if you if anyone would like to volunteer at the community garden we are there from 9:30
a.m. till 12:00 p.m. on Saturdays the environmental commission is looking at options and resources to assist the residents and the borrow with the sewer disputes June 4th I attended the meeting with the do and and concerns were brought up uh to them on for rout 28
such as pren and Crossing by 240 meria the Boy Scouts will host the second annual pitwood Derby this Saturday for more details please contact me uh please excuse me as I will have to leave early tonight since it's my dad's birthday if you need to get in contact with me uh
please email me at katel Rosel park.net thank you yep thank you councilman happy birthday to it's Dad's birthday today happy birthday to your father have a good night uh okay uh councilman rabina thank you mayor good evening
Rosel Park on May 18th I attended the New Jersey bike and walk Coalition bike and walk Summit AT middle sex County College a lot of great information was presented and got some very doable lowc cost and some free takeaways to consider as we work together to improve safety Mobility connectivity and trails in
roselt park and Beyond on May 21st I joined Tim kley with the RP environmental commission to clean out the raised beds and plan a number of sensory friendly perennials in annuals at the sensory friendly playground at loret Park that we received County funding to create two years ago and is among one of a handful of sensory
friendly Municipal parks in the county with over 20% of our children having individualized education plans or simply put different abilities this Park is open to all just like church bells ocean waves and Rain Drops have a soothing effect the equipment there helps
everyone with sensory processing needs my family and I have been visiting to water the plants so they take root just in time for Rosell Park special education parent advisory groups and of get together at the park on Thursday June 13th at 6 p.m. big thanks to Tim kley for donating these
plants regarding our roadways and sidewalks work is underway on Larch and pine with Curbing and concrete work milling and Paving is next and yesterday the county started Milling Locust a county road at night with minimal and temporary impact on May 22nd I represented the buau for
the raway valley mayor's Alliance regarding the Rosel Park train station NJ Transit confirmed the construction bid will be out first quarter of 2025 for the station Renovations I requested signage to be posted at the station with the design plan and mention that the project is coming soon so that our
commuter residents are kept informed to which they obliged these updates are critical as NJ Transit mentioned Peak ridership during the week is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and that's still 20% less from pre- pandemic levels as most employers are still in hybrid for the unforeseeable future Wednesday is the
highest ridership day through uh though the weekend ridership is 20% higher than during the week New Jersey Transit uh New Jersey transit's representative mentioned the increasing issues with Amtrak over these last four or five months electrical issues
specifically on May 23rd I attended the Rosel Park Police Department and Rosel Park fire department Chile Cookoff at the high school benefiting Project Graduation and the eighth grade graduating class served as one of the judges congrats to the Rosel Park fire department for taking home the trophy
and thank you to officers cero Matthews PBA 27 the PTA pto's and all participants for this kickoff event and as the eighth grade committee leader Elizabeth loner Smith would say every dollar raise is a dollar more than our students had before thanks to all who
came out to support I wanted to say thanks to Cranford Dairy Queen for their continued support and partnership as they sponsored 50 free small Ice Cream coupons resp for the library summer reading program and the upcoming cpeg end the year get together for these past three years a portion of ceg's vouchers
will be shared with the middle school and high school volunteers who have become peer models to our children at events on May 27th I attended the Memorial Day service at the Cassano Center over 1.3 million American Service men and women have died in wars and conflicts throughout US History much
blood has been shed for our rights freedoms and Liberties today is also D day on this day 80 years ago the course of history changed with over 150,000 Allied Forces comprised of 73,000 Americans with 2 200 service members
paying the ultimate price for freedom and American blood continues to be shed today may we always have a place in our hearts to be grateful to acknowledge the ultimate sacrifice they made and most importantly to treat one another with respect and civility despite
differences on May 30th I attended the spot the first Spotlight series of the Kyan University county 22 uh Consortium comprised of the 21 municipalities and the county Union it focused on government hiring and retention the cane Network and benefits of partnership job
fairs recruitment adult degree completion programs were discussed as were votech jobs mechanics Engineers plumbers electricians the trades are in demand an average student of can they mentioned is 47 years old so not too late to continue learning chamber member
businesses and burrow employees as the burough as a chamber member are automatically part of the cane Network and eligible to receive a 20% discount on online courses 10% off in person and an application fee waiver on the fourth as the chamber Lee
aison I shared flyers for the Gateway YMCA at Five Points chamber Partners benefiting Rosal Park residents and families with a no joiners fee for two weeks and summer swim lesson specials there's more info on my Facebook page also on the fourth I participated in NJ
dos and hand study of Route 28 it was their kickoff meeting regarding numerous long-standing issues with traffic flow and Mobility they recognized safety concerns and issues that need to be addressed and are collecting data we met for over an hour and a half and provided much input and Technical knowledges on
knowledge and CH on challenges and opportunities within the era and they responded favorably thank you to the residents who have reached out to all of us and shared your concerns about Westfield dve and thank you to Andrew mayor signarello and councilman Gregory Johnson specifically for spearheading these discussions dot stressed they've
heard us all loud and clear on this one and I commend ba casai for sending a polite yet direct message to to top brass at dot regarding another dot issue major Property Maintenance concerns along Street Valley and Beachwood mayor that concludes my report fifth War I can
be reached at jbin Rosel park.net in 862 23619 I'm all done I'm sorry jay your tie looks lovely appreciate uh councilwoman Lions good evening hello everybody it's great to see um everyone
here um and and mayor and councel um I was also at the dowlings opening it's awesome to see uh doors are open and uh and businesses in Rosal Park and seeing just jubilant and the ice cream shop that we have and the Art Studio we have
Costas everything that's that's really there um even Rose Valley we all need to support um and this is just a reminder let's support the events that we have we have them for you uh support our
businesses um because they need you um so we definitely want to to be able to just have a reminder of that the Memorial Day uh Service uh was uh beautiful and um it was it was definitely something that uh that was
just meaningful to and and an honor to attend um we also had karaoke at the casano center uh there wasn't a lot of people but it was powerful playi is a local business they are going to be doing events here so please come out even if
you can't sing they do trivia and just to spend time and I was able to even reunite with some old neighbors that I had from growing up on Webster um and it was wonderful to see and also karaoke at post 60 um they actually have things going on I'm going to try to actually
post that a little bit more so we can have support it's all all are welcome and if you can donate to post 60 and help the veterans that would be wonderful also um I just want to encourage everybody and remind everyone Rosel park.net is where to go sometimes
I didn't even know that to be honest um and that's that's something that everybody needs to know you just click on that and that's where all the meetings are the agendas are land use meet everything that's there it'll it's right front and center so make sure you
have that down and also the Rosal Park app I always talk about it it's called My Rosel park it has all the events we have a lot of things happening in June and July we are bringing back Open Mic nights and that's in the Gazebo we had
an amazing just talent show up in Rosal Park all the kids that really um sing for the town national anthems everything they're they're coming out even from that so I encourage you to come out everything that we have it's for all of
us um the Rosal Park walking Club will be starting I keep talking about it um but the weather's just been so crazy but I promise you I'm going to be starting that up again um but if you need me uh 908 72687
73 and our L at Rosal park.net and I just leave you with three words when I started a year and a half ago the fir the three words words that were on my heart was connection communication and Community something was awakened in
Rosal Park and I don't see it as a bad thing I see it as a good thing um it's funny because when I look out into the crowd I wish I could grab you guys and say look at everybody um don't be afraid to smile um we're with you we're for you
we're not against you uh connection is important communication is important so we can have community so thank you thank you councilwoman uh councilman patoski okay thank you mayor uh first of all I
want to send my condolences out to constant vcio Deo and Judas lesbi corfield on May 18 I attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for d uh good luck to them on the 20th I attended the
Historical Society meeting on the 27th I attended the Memorial Day Parade um I know we uh we we honored the uh veterans that lost their life but also I me personally I think of the veterans that
served our country and I want to thank uh my fellow councilman Gregory Johnson for your service and uh also all veterans that are in this room and all through Rosell Park and all thing for their service to uh to help a a great
nation like that but uh um on June 3rd I attended the fire department meeting um again we mostly talked about uh uh uh repairs uh and everything and then I know there was a big fire at PS
substation Joe yeah so I I've seen the uh smoke so uh some of the firemen were at that call so um and again everyone knows today is uh dday uh June 6 80 years and I was
watching the uh the TV this morning and you know seen these veterans over 100 years old and um many of them said they lied about their age they uh they were 16y old and they were uh serving their country and everything but like I said
um there's a quite a few that were over 100 year old so I do uh you know give them a lot of credit and like thank them for their service um if you need to get a hold of me you can get me at J Petroski at Rosal park.net
9086664419 coming up appreciate uh that help and like the mayor said I spoke to councilman uh excuse me former mayor Hokinson about uh we had a little chat on Memorial Day
about adding the monument for the space force and I too like to thank the veterans that have served over the years my my dad did serve uh in between 55 and 57 and it's uh it's nice to see
our second year of our um veterans um uh banners uh downtown on the tea uh I too attended the memorial service uh um excuse me and um I'm repeating myself and I just want to say even though the
parade was cancelled but the uh intent and the the uh spirit of the ceremony we accomplished it at the casano center and walked over to the Doughboy and uh that's kind of the meat and potatoes of the of the event and the parade uh it
would would have been nice but we called it and I'm part of the one that we called it 10:00 a.m. on uh Friday we thought the weather was going to be bad um I too attended the dowlings uh opening it's so good to see that corner done it is beautiful inside um they
didn't have my uh sourdough grilled cheese sandwich that first day but I'll be going back to I I've loved it and I've been eating some of Russ's cooking since he was working in in uh in Molly MaGuire's in Clark a long time ago
so uh that's the end of my report you need to get a hold of me uh 908 721 6488 and uh it's end of my report mayor thank you councilman uh councilman Johnson thank you mayor good evening mayor council and residents first I
would like to start off with a couple of community announcements I am pleased to announce on behalf of the diversity and inclusion committee that we are having our second um annual juneth celebration here in Rosel Park on Saturday June 15th uh 2024 from the hours of 5: to 9:00
p.m. located at Michael J Mory Park also known as kazeebo Park and I hope to see a diverse Community showing because juneth to me is not only an African-American holiday but it is a holiday to celebrate the evolution and growth of our nation ultimately
commemorating the end of slave y in the United States and in my view that is something for all human beings to be rejoiceful about so please come out for my second announcement I wanted to advise uh residents that finally Jay
we the burrow have had that a discussion with NJ do professionals in regards to revitalization efforts to make Route 28 a safer Corridor for both pedestrians and motorists I repeat for both pedestrians and
motorists uh expect to be completed within a few years after this this is a lengthy process a special thanks to Andrew mayor the rest of council and NJ dot Personnel for supporting this project and my efforts to improve safe
routes for all when commuting around the community lastly mayor I wanted to take a moment to uh use the remaining of my my time to express uh um s express my position without interruptions without rudess without
labeling or without condescending biases um first um I wanted to add uh Ro since I since I just thought about it uh another word to use too with the three C's is civility you know we can have a
difference of opinion a different of views but what I must say my hat go off to that Resident that was here this morning I mean today early he put that so eloquently and it so refreshing to see uh opposition being
articulate in a polite and a respectful manner so if you're going to come up here and ask me questions please just do that I will be respectful to you and you will be respectful to me um first and foremost I want to say how
did we come to the the three number it was originally five we lower L it to three just to make set the record straight I'm not staunched on it has to be three I'm okay with once we go through the process that if we could
downsize it because the community is saying downsize it I'm open to those discussions so again you guys wouldn't know that because every time people come up here to ask me a question they don't allow me to speak I'm rudely interrupted
abruptly interrupted cackles hackles from Prof from Boe members um you know that's just that's just not right and as unprofessional in my view um I did have the opportunity to speak to a a wonderful young lady who
advised me that um she was against it but she talked so politely my I was able to hear her when two people are yelling at each other or being disrespectful to one another you can't hear I can't hear the mayor can't hear
you guys can't hear and I feel bad because there are truly residents in this community that want to express themselves the right way and politely ask to lower it or debunk what's going on
so that's that's just uh where I sit at it at this time um let's see um in regards to the Rob Zone the Cannabis MD was in the right Zone I know
there was a slew of questions uh but it is in the right Zone but one of the residents is correct too behind it is a residential area so I understand what was going on with that situation but it is medical MD is in the
proper R zone is that those laws predate me they predate mayor they predate this Council uh so uh I don't think anyone uh did that to Rally uh residents at all and and you know potato potato maybe it
needs to be moved and like the mayor said earlier if it happens to you know get canned through the process then we'll revisit it that's that's what government is about so um as far as residents deciding to quote
propaganda attack mailers with uh no attach uh actual factual reality I'm just shocked and and and a little bit appalled and that in 2024 that our population don't know we have to check and S uh site our sources that
propaganda that was sent out I never voted for apartment it's operable that was an attack on my character on my character which is inappropriate you know um there was
other things being said and again that again I inappropriate all of my stuff is public information anyone could review it as they see fit I in fact I learned this back in high school so I'm certain
everybody else probably have as well that you have to site your sources those people that put out that information were just straight cowards because they couldn't even put their name on it or where did it came from and I was a little bit shocked that um a
resident was trying to justify it to me by saying hey the reason why that's happening to you is because you're a Democrat and I was like that's not right that's a form of labeling I don't always agree with the mayor I don't always agree with my counterparts but we
articulate and have discussions respectful behind closed doors sometimes up here too sometimes oh no no sometimes we we do it up here too right man you know I have done that several times so again you know that would be like saying all Caucasians are
races all African-Americans are lazy all Hispanics are immigrants stop labeling at this point in our in our life in our world we need to stop that in society that just goes to show we still have a lot of growth to
continue you can uh keep going Greg thank you all in all that was just another form of stereotyping and we must move away from that civil nevertheless uh hold on excuse me at the end of the day mayor
uh like I said on Facebook I'm gonna end my meeting I'm gonna um digress but I just want Roso Park to understand we have to go through this process so we can avoid liability concerns such as the sewer such as Romanowski which CA
financial burden to the residents I understand people are in disagreement but we have to follow the process once that process manifest is out then we can go back to the drawing board so again I
just hope whoever comes up here and speak to me if you're G to ask me a question one allow me to speak and two uh this is my position I'm not staunched on three I don't have we don't have to have three it could be two it could be one and I know somebody else out there
probably saying it could be none but I never said that I'm staunched on three so that concludes my report mayor thank you for the opportunity Community thank you for the opportunity I'm going to continue to work hard through my actions like I have been doing the past four
years because I am one of the most active and not taking away from my colleagues who self-initiate a lot of transparency look at your look at the look at the ordinance that you see in front of you it has everybody's names Greg Johnson created
that so I am very transparent don't say the burrow it came from the Burl I told the Burl to do it and we voted on it that was your idea okay and the DRC there's a lot I could go on and go on I'll name 20 things right now I could so I don't I'm not naming it so I could get
a trophy or a light I don't care about that I'm not here to win I'm here to talk and communicate and use the three CS that Rosanna said plus civility please be civil thank you this is not Washington DC you don't have to raid us we're neighbors you can always pulled me
aside I had someone jump in front of me all you had to do is say excuse me can I talk to you jump right in front of me while I'm walking that's not rude what are we doing community I know it's political season but let's get it together very well said
councilman but uh I round of applause yeah Agreed 100% yeah deserves that yeah um yeah I'm going to keep mine short I mean I just uh there's so much other other things going on today it just it
feels really important to state that um whatever's going on here uh I think the most important thing about today is is D-Day and recognizing that so many years ago um people fought for an ideal people fought against fascism people thought
fought against the rise of Nazism and disgusting hard things that were happening in Europe and and I am so damn proud every day to be an American and I fly my flag and we might not always
agree but I I I truly I shudder to think and and I'm 36 years old and and social media look I I've got thick skin I've been doing this for six years but social media has become such a cesspool that that that people have no
more civil discourse like everybody up here Works their ass off 100% nobody everybody up here lives here everybody else salutes the flag everybody else here pays taxes right um and I think
it's really important I'm not talking about sewer bills right now I'm not talking about weed right now I'm talking about being American and respecting our systems whether it's at the top of the house whether it's right here in Rosal Park like there's a c C Level of just
common sense and respect for the systems that we have that so many died for fighting for that right that I think needs to be observed today and going forward so mayor Sig at Rosal park.net if you want to yell at me about sewer bills or anything
else uh with that may I have a motion to open the public portion on any subject matter so move second on favor I anybody wishing to come up and speak on any subject matter may do so now how you doing George Ramirez 500 East
Clay yep uh so I think we do need more communication we need more civility the reason people are mad is that for the last few weeks there have been 80-year-old people coming here
expressing their disgust for these cannabis dispensaries and nobody does anything last month there was an 85-year old man he stood here and you guys told them well it was already approved you have to go to the land use board to let them
know that you don't like it well the gentleman showed up a couple weeks later and because he didn't ask the question the right way the land use board said that's got nothing to do with us the council already approved it that's got nothing to do with us just because he
didn't say you guys need to vote on the variants they shush them away so it's like everybody plays the blame game you're play you're blaming the land use board land use board is blaming you guys and people are just pissed off about it they're tired of
it are you done yeah and that's you know you keep talking about we're fully transparent yeah you're doing the bare minimum as far as being transparent you're putting it on the on the on the uh on the website but when it comes to like a garage sale Roso Park is paying
Facebook to sponsor an ad for the garage sale why not pay for an ad that's going to bring that's going to influence people that are going to impact people in their pockets I'm right now people are their property taxes are going to go up next year nobody's ever have you guys
said anything about this have has how do you know the property taxes are going to go up next year well you guys raised the budget we that was for this year's budget that's for the taxes levied this year the budget not set next year you telling me property taxes aren't going up next year no I I we don't know we have to
project this like and we so can I just I just want to I want to respond to to three things I'm going to be very one last thing so we have a lot of expenditures going on we have the sewer tax we have property taxes we have all these things and instead of cutting back on expenses
we're spending more oh well it's only 150 it's not going to impact but if you add everything up 150 here 40,000 for banners 50,000 for here 130 for a patch of grass that has got nothing to do with it it adds up at the end of the year we literally just cut 50k from the budget
tonight but you just spent 500,000 to the neglia group how much of that do negli group we need a new fire truck do you not should we not buy a new fire out to see who can give us the best service I mean when you ran for mayor the first thing you did was you raised the
donation amount right incorrect all right one of the first things you did was you raised the amount that people could donate to your campaign we remov restrictions so we would have more options which raised the amount the state also raised them wholesale so all
right before the amount the maximum amount that somebody could donate to the mayor was $200 let mean $200 did you raise that amount we removed the cap yes okay so you raised it yes so you just said incorrect how am I incorrect
because there was no raise the the legal limits to contribute or the legal to the cap we remove the cap to bid on work in Rosal Park yes so how many of those by removing the cap how many more businesses have we gained that weren't
around before like Rosal Park businesses yeah no like you know like people who work for Rosal Park sewer for trash collection for you know all of these things that go on for the infrastructure I'd love to talk about trash collection I could talk about trash collection all
day we bid out every 3 years the only biders we ever get are Suburban I'd love for somebody else to bid uh you know I mean it varies professional by professional we probably get about eight bids for for engineer I mean look there's a couple things I want to respond to unfortunately you can't speak I'm sorry I took up some of your time
but look there there's um first off about people coming here I totally understand I represent 8,000 voters and 1400 people 14,000 people in the bar of Rosal Park I understand respect any individual who wants to come here and
talk about their problems or talk about their issues that does not mean they're representative of the majority of Rosal park period right second thing is uh uh when it comes to uh transparency you know I I I wake up at night because like
you guys think that you know I'm some callous mayor that just like I cackle while I'm smoking cigars in my office thinking about what evil thing to do in Rosal Park like these things bother me like could I have been more transparent should I have been more transparent and it occurred to me the other day we made
medical marijuana a conditional use and I want to explain to you what a conditional use is that means that they can't just go to Rich buio or zoning officer and get a permit they have to go through other steps other steps within the public right so it's fine and and
look on property taxes I I cannot stress enough I am going to spike the ball and I'm going to take a Victory lap here for I'm 36 years old for 20 years before I became mayor every house the average property value was $200 a year and that's $200 in like 1996
2000 money right it hasn't been perfect under my Administration but we've cut that in half I mean heck we had the first we had the first reduction in taxes three years ago that's happened in the last three decades right is that when the county so so once again you're not allowed to talk but but but we did
have the first reduction from the county jail though no no not jail shut down three years ago you have no idea what you're talking about George yeah so so so long story short long story short thing for people who want to challenge
my record on taxes I have been the most fiscally conservative mayor in Union County period period would anybody else want to come up speak oh man so do I need to introduce myself again yes you do okay my name is Chris
Lee 450 Henry Street thank you I just first like to apologize for my laughter earlier it was not directed at any member of this body nor was it directed at the body itself I just like to finish and say that I'm dissatisfied with the discussion both in the content and the character of the discussion of it and I'll yield the rest of my time good
noted thank you anybody else thought it was great yep Marie Miguel is 607 sharidan na um just have two thoughts well two two comments umer okay you guys all want respect and
that's great we all deserve respect respect is earned when people are talking I know you don't like him for whatever reason I don't no hold on I don't okay let me finish sure whatever got it
but don't laugh at what he says he takes time to write things out the other gentleman he has his opinions you have your opinions don't ignore them don't slouch on your chair but one question I do have is on this sure the salaries how are
these defined the minimums and the maximums you say that we saved you saved $50,000 because we're going to join with kennworth yes 50,000k is nothing compared to all the expenditures that are here and this gentleman when he was uh talking about what he
did yes ma'am you mentioned that one of the girls at the school said it's $1 more than we had before and that's what this guy is saying you said also that we were going to get 2% tax rebates from the marijuana
places but then you said o it's really heartless to charge people who have terminal diseases 2% so technically we're not getting anything from the dispens joy as it stands as if we if we pass new recreational ones then
we would get 2% from those right so in order for us to get the 2% we have to get a dispensary for recreational yeah should they get approved should they get approved yeah so okay I'm going to be heartless I'm sorry charge 2% for the
medicinal ons I'm sorry this is this is how the commercialist come out on TV in the mornings that say oh please don't smoke because now I have lung cancer well sorry you shouldn't have smoked not my problem what are you
sorry rosan sorry rosan I can't Rosanna you can't holy cow no what I'm saying is this guys just let her finish please what I'm saying is this we all have a choice on what we do right we all know that smoking is dangerous it causes
cancer uhhuh why would you continue to do it right and then when you get sick then we all have to foot the bill I I mean my grandfather took medical marijuana because because because he had heal my grandfather died
from cancer and he took them as loes so I have that in my family and we told them you're an idiot for smoking you know it's bad for you quit so with with regards to your why the burrow chose not to tax medicinal marijuana if
I went to CVS and got my cancer medicine there the state would not allow the municipality to put an additional tax on it right so it's a different form of cancer medication from a different medical provider so the burrow looks at it from that perspective the
recreational tax is same as a cigarette tax or something to that effect effect that's a different choice but when it came to medicine it's on par as if I went to Walgreens or CVS and received my cancer medication there so you don't get
an additional 2% tax because you're sick right even though that may be what you believe but that's not what the borrow chose to do no you explained you explained it better than he did well thank you for that all right but so going back do we know the limits on
these salaries like Andrew can you please comment I go for it I've see can I just say one thing that is lack of respect to me you turning around and going here Andrew let's take care of it that's according to you your respect is
earned ma'am or should we respect you because we need to you need to earn it no hold on you said that didn't you so so I deferred to Andrew because Andrew is the burrow administrator who sets the salaries yes Andrew please respond to the question that was not how
you did it and they can attest how you did it you just want like ma' if you interpret it differently I'm sorry it's because he's the burough administrator Andrew please answer so the salary ranges are not the salaries per se the salary ranges are broad by design for a
variety of reasons one of which is the burrow exercises different options with different employees some employees are part-time and sometimes they're quickly changed to full-time or vice Versa uh the maximum range of those salaries is
the maximum um I can tell you that no employee of the bur Rosal Park is at the maximum of their salary range unfortunately I can't respond to any more of your questions and the mayor will tell you that but I will tell you that also after meeting but I'm but I'm happy to explain this the ranges are not
as scientific and thought as you may think they could be Zer to a million dollar it will not make any meaningful difference to what those individuals are paid they're paid commensurately with what their duties are okay useless thank you thank you so
there's two things I want to comment on first off broadly I I I understand that we have a lot to pay for now and I understand you guys can we've already talked about the Rick Barry statue Superfluous things that shouldn't be spent on I'm still going to spend money
on Public Safety I just am and anybody here who has an issue with me in before I became mayor the deputy Chiefs the volunteers of this fire department in Rosel Park were riding around in hoopties barely getting to you know struggling March a schoola fix them
every week when I became mayor everybody got new vehicles we just got $75,000 in new turnout kits by the way great Grant thank you Jay for the leadership there and we have an aging fire Tru that we needed to replace this is something that
our volunteers requested so yes I am spending my money on neglia to design the extension to the fire department because our fire department needs more space to put stuff and a fire truck and I will not be intimidated on spending money when it comes to Public Safety period and when it comes to respect I
speak passionately I'm a 5 foot4 on a good day Italian man who's from New Jersey I I have a lot of piss and vinegar for lack of a better term it is not anger it is not disrespect and as a matter of fact verbally Chris I said I appreciated your I appreciated your
words and I thought it was very eloquent it's very you know it's nice to have that laid out perfectly so anybody else want to come up and speak public portion agenda items or not agenda items whatever you want Hello hello Arlene Brown 475 East westfi Avenue Rosel Park I just have a
little question yes and I understand you're very much for Public Safety yes if this dispensary goes through for recreational purposes yes what will be the laws about people driving leaving that dispensary putting the candy in
their mouth picking up a cigarette or whatever a marijuana reefer and smoking it what are the laws going to be are they going to be for Public Safety Chief you want to come up and answer you're not allowed to drink and drive you're not allowed to smoke and drive y okay so if we saw somebody
smoking we can call the cops if they're driving if they're smoking and driving absolutely yeah that's it okay absolutely thank you yeah and I have a lot of short Italian men friends you know I grew we're all right on occasion you know call my next door neighbor I
take the compliment where I can get it we got a couple here in the audience I'm going to translate for her y my name is Patric almea for f Colonial Ro
okay you guys request best respect but when we came for first time here I'm sorry that's okay okay good when we came here the first time I came because you guys are going to put a dispensary in front of my
house I pay 18,000 in property tax my house is in a residential area you guys told me that it wasn't in a residential area that the business is not in a residential area when it's right in front of my house you guys said it was approved and shook each other's
hand and laughed in our faces the first time I can't that that's why I'm mad can I because because you guys need respect we want respect we need respect
yep in the schools y we promote not to use drugs not to use marijuana and now you want to put one in front of the schools I don't understand why are you putting up those prevention
programs and you're going to put this drugs right in front of the kids recreational can I respond okay so I I really hate to do this but I really want to set the record straight on how that night went and you can say that we laughed right yes I laughed at you after
as you were leaving you called me a bendjo right everything is in YouTube that's that's is in YouTube right so we want to talk about respect that's that's that's disrespect right from the beginning of that we were there to evaluate whether or not that was that
area Ro OB Zone was okay I understand this a residential area these people worked hard to make a decision whether or not it was okay and I sat here I got made fun of for my hair I got made fun of for what I was wearing like you know you can disagree whether or not I was
dressed appropriately for a land use board member but I sat there I sat there and I evaluated and I took insult after insult and yes I laughed because when somebody uses the b word like that on me I'd rather laugh then really get
insulted and that's disrespect ma'am because you that that that not you that okay and then you are the the mayor yep you are supposed to be respect everybody you are supposed to listen everybody M
and you are so a when when all need votes is going home by home and they they offer you guys offer the best and then you do the opposite everybody M thank
you and I ask that you have consideration is not we families there okay I'm going to it's not fair yes so I just want to say I'm going to
respond to that directly for everybody who's watching once again and for everybody who hasn't heard what's going on here the board passed the okay for class five medical or class 5 marijuana dispensary there it is now in litigation
right it is up to a judge whether or not that stands if it does not stand and if it does not go through this year then we will remove the license for it and there will be no allowed marijuana there period but there is there there is you can't ask any questions but I will
follow up on this and I'm happy to talk about it afterwards because I think this is important cuz I have no horse in this phace I really legitimately if there's zero marijuana dispensaries after this year what no let me finish ma'am let me finish I really have no horse in this
race but right now whether everybody likes it or not and maybe you could say it was a mistake maybe people on the board feel like it was a mistake we issued three uh conditional uses and we cannot R ract them this year once the year's up if we choose and there's
leftovers we can retract them we cannot retract them this year it's that simple and I'm happy to talk more yeah Rosanna please I don't want to listen okay listen actually I am gonna talk and you're not so talk that's it your time's up that's
that's it this your time's up thank you your time's up up thank you thank you thank you thank you to thank you actually you don't want to listen so I just want to say to the beautiful woman that was talking I agree with her I
agree with the residents over there and I'm not saying it disrespectfully to you mayor I just wanted to say we did hear you I was there and what he just said the crowd was going against the mayor against what he was wearing that means
there's no substance that means you have nothing else to to say but when you do speak in saying that you care for your house and your children 100% but you have to hear what he's saying the mayor is telling you
over and over again if it doesn't go through from your efforts it's not going to happen you should be happy about that I said it before you guys came and woke up because you heard something bad was happening in Rosal Park and you're
standing up for it would you for that I always say it's a community thing but it's not about me applauding you it's a good thing Jerry it's a good thing that you're doing okay the only thing we're saying is when we do talk we want to
respect you we deserve that same thing you don't you know telling me I don't want to hear you and walking away but I have to tell you this from the the get-go where were you last
year last year when everyone voted on this no let's go Council respectfully can we just move on to the next I just but uh George can you please no we I can't have you engage the public rosan I'm sorry I can't have you engage the
public I'm just saying they need to translate that no one was here last year when they voted I know thank let's next thank you rosan sorry yes sir your Rick Barry statue's dead you got to win tonight go ahead name and
address quite right L after all that I'm not quite sure okay in any event all right mil wff 134 B ravenue yep um I think one of the things to digress just a bit with the marijuana thing yep
it seems to one of the things we all are not giving proper consideration to yep is facts that number one there was a national drug problem and a drug crisis and also new Jersey has one also so it
would seem to me and quite frankly I don't really think we need to encourage more drug use by having facilities right here in Rosell Park and one square mile building with three of them but anyway
yep in reference to the Breakwater thing yes do they have to come back before the board they do have to come back for the board for the other for the for the piece yep recreational Bo MH yep okay all right
um there were two apartment units at the head of uh Justice Street and Westfield W how many units are there uh the Meridia you're talking about it's 325 how many Porky spots do they have I
like 800 like it's a crazy amount they need to have 1.5 per 325 so what's the math there we can get we can get we can give you the actual number is that for both facilities yes so it's for both facilities and then also they have 50 dedicated to the burrow that we get to use well does it are all those spot
destinated for the apartments no no so uh again 50 of them are for burrow use the first floor will be our use how we going to monitor those sorry how we going to monitor that we're going to put meters in them yeah I mean they do the same thing in Cranford so like they have
a parking deck over by the hotel they have meters on the first floor I've been there once or twice yep all one of the things that I was curious about yep uh the uh octagon Edge Towers yep had to pay up a million dollars to resolve the
tower issue how is that money going to be reflected in in our budget so it's a good question uh I so it goes into our general Capital now right so basically to your point um and you've said this very well Milt right like so if we want
to buy if we have a road to do next year right we could use that for a road right so it'll be part of yeah it's not Capital though it's not Capital oh it's just in the general okay okay whoops sorry I kick me next time go ahead Ken you're the CFO you can speak with more Authority on this one no that that that
would go into the current fund budget and if you if you want to appropriate it to use to pay for a capital item directly you can do that right so TBD all right one of the things that also recently passed was a a number of Street
Improvement projects yep I understand they need to be re repaired but quite frankly uh why are we not questioning the utilities that help make the mess of the streets by Excavating oh you teed me up for a home run here Milt so uh I'm
setting you up yeah thank you I appreciate that so we did uh so actually when I got elected uh they were responsible for just Road opening permits uh and then we made them pay for half of the road to get finished and then recently we paid then they pay for
curb to curb um now so a lot of the some of the roads we're doing we pay for where there's no utility work and we're at like 80% of the burrow we've done at this point but the ones that have utility work it's no cost to the Bur they do end to end curbing um the asphalt I'm not just talking about the
curbing I'm oh sorry not the curbing the the the P the black top thank you the middle of the street are a m that's paid for by them after the Project's done yeah that's the project what about utilities being part of that they they do it they do they pay the whole thing how is that reflected in the budget uh
it's not reflected in the budget they basically just do it for us so we require it as ending the project they have to do it for us is that correct yep so the the way it works is and this was just Mr Woodruff it uh you you saw it more recently up on Lehigh Avenue and in
that area of town where um that was kind of the F the headache everyone dealt with was the final aspect of the milling and Paving but there was a project so a condition what happens is the utility comes in and they apply for what's called a street or a Road opening permit that's reviewed by my office the burrow
Engineers office and it's looked at how old is the road what's the condition of the road when was the road last paved is it under moratorium is it not I would say 99% of the roads in Rosell Park whether they're technically under moratorium or they're not under moratorium whether they were paved 10
years ago or one year ago if they're touching the road they have to pay for the full boat of the permit which is typically upwards of five figures and then they have to as a condition of the permit close out repave the road curb to curb that's a new that's a new uh
requirement that we've put in place over the last two years some of the roads we're doing for like uh Avon Street and Berwin Street where we've had to get NJ doot grant funding for and things like that to offset the cost those roads where you see the trenches or the
patches are under old permits that are from many years ago they they need a lot of help they do need and it's on the way we're working on it thank you sir than got one other question can't do it apolog reference to the non-un time's
up time's up can I let him time's up sorry bud I'll talk to you afterwards I'll Stick Around go ahead yep okay yeah just got to be respectful of other people's time sorry yes ma'am good evening Karen brenzo back
614 Sheridan Avenue Yep this is sort of more of a comment um and I don't know if this applied to everyone but I feel like there was probably a better fiscal use of um M Municipal staff when I received
my letter with my sewer bill um the envelope was handwritten you indicated that there are 14,000 residents I can't imagine that everyone received that and I don't know I didn't take a poll here at the meeting but it's really just more
of a comment that um I know how busy administrations are and everyone that works in them so I don't know if I was just an anomaly yeah I I think I got mine printed I don't know if there was some that was there was an issue with no there there was uh was a new type of
bill this year so not all envelopes certain certain envelopes that were separate address with the use address had to be handwritten out so it was not all that's all but it was I would assume it's it's a minor point it was just something I felt like if really someone
was sitting in any of the offices handwriting all of that no I appreciate it I appreciate an easy one thank you excellent thank you yeah uh anybody else wishing to come up and speak evening mayor and councel hey Eric Eric Kennedy 327 West Lincoln e um I
just this is a little bit off topic from everybody else um I do have some concerns with the shared services agreement that was just passed tonight sure um I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea hey Eric can you just speak a little bit more in the mic yes I don't necessarily think it's a terrible idea
if it's going to save the burrow 50,000 I can see that's hopefully it works out yep um anyway I am looking in here and it says uh the kennworth can use all of our equipment apparatus and vehicles is that something that we can also utilized
their equipment yeah so I think the the goal is and I'll I'll defer to Andrew about how kind of the the nature of this right so we have they have sort of the management we have the equipment right so we each bring a little bit to the table and you know candidly I was
actually expecting to spend more on the shared service right versus the 50k so I think we're getting a pretty good deal but um Andrew I'll I'll defer to you on the logistics um Eric I think the short answer to that is yes um I don't think it's going be an everyday type of thing
just like I don't think they're going to be using our equipment every day no I don't either I think they have much better equipment I think it's right so I think that you know part of it is if we if they have something we need like in a lot of times I mean you know Cranford we've gone to Cranford we've used Cranford stuff it's going to be an arrangement much like that that will
continue okay part of the part of the consideration of this agreement happened to be the use of equipment because they know we have better equipment than they do okay yep was there another question nope that's it thank you Eric I just didn't see anything in I wanted to clear that up yep thank you thank you appreciate
it anybody else oh you finishing up his question that's cute that's cute work together that's what you said that's very sweet of you I don't understand the question well so okay he'll understand whatever you answer that's very cute he wanted to
know how many you got to just sorry for the record woodriff 134 Bender yep um he what are the number of employees covered by the non-union contract does anybody know off the top of the Dome uh so we got I couldn't guess yeah I couldn't I
couldn't I couldn't guess so it would be nonp police non-clerical non DPW are they are they mostly part timers no it's a management right would most of it so like you're nonunion yeah I mean I we could get that number yeah okay it's just it's easier for me to say I get the
number than to guess a number okay and I I just have a comment I'm sitting here listening to all of this and uh I find that um respect gets respect and I'm going to leave it at that you've always been very pleasant when I talk so I'm grateful for
that um I I had a thought and I directed it Greg because you're my councilman and uh I've been lazy I don't come to the meetings um I kind of rely on the council members know what they're doing
and and I will if something comes up I will hear about it I got blindsided with the Cannabis thing I really did and I would like to uh suggest that if there are issues like that and again it would be at your discretion because I will try
to come but life gets funny um if we could I don't even know where you live Greg quite honestly it's not my business to check on where everybody lives but if there was some way that we could pull people together within our our our
district I or we're Ward we're Ward I think we're Ward one I I never understand to that but um just that when something like that comes up I I I just needed time to digest it I'm still against it I I have children I have
grandchildren and all those things that we've talked about Rosanne um but if I have a Time an opportunity at least to hear what's going on so that we're not getting into this mess uh where we're I
don't want to fin out litigation but I don't know how else because that's the rules and that's the set of Law and we follow the law yep so if this is the way we have to do it okay but I'd rather talk and not have you people struggling
to come up with an answer when um you you struck a nerve you know so that's that's just my thought I don't know where most most of you live but um I've lived here all my life and I knew most of the people but it's it's getting a little harder these days I don't have
anybody in the schools I don't have anybody in any of the events and most of my friends have moved away you know which is a sad thing to say anyway but um that's just my point of view and I make that suggestion as a way to avoid
you guys listening to people who are angry because they got blindsided so yeah no it's well said it's well said I mean I I'll let you can you can sit down or you can stay I mean I just I just want to say thank you for that it's
very well said um you know I I'm I'll let Greg speak but you know I think we have done this in the past where up to people's Wards like they've done like coffee sit down with the council person or something like that look I will say I think it's tough to Define for us where
the line is like yeah you know and looking hindsight if I knew I could avoid headaches I'm human right if I knew I could have avoided headaches this year by shouting from the Treetops we gonna potentially pass weed last year I would get in a time machine and I would do it right I
was floored floored beyond belief because I've we've posted we've done less stuff where we've gotten 80 people here versus 40 here street sweeping yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but no no I just I want to thank you again for being respectful but I look if I would just get in time machine and go back and you know announce it from the
Treetops maybe I would have you know I don't know if your time's up I stopped oh okay real quick just go let's go thing because I can't hear I make where I can do it uh I wanted to say
that at the one of the first meetings I started coming to um we looked at the budget and I didn't know there was a recreation department so I had to milon ey actually we looked at the budget and we couldn't figure out why you were hiring all these people so we went to
John reri I met him at the at the uh Center and he gave us one of the nicest tours I think that you folks should open that building every once in a while I'm a grandma but my kids don't live here
had no idea how big it was and how much stuff was going on there yeah I was just floored and I I give John Kudos I mean he probably shoot me if I said you should open it up again but um if
anybody hasn't seen it and if I'm on TV yeah you ought to go ask some questions or see that building and what's going on in there I it's amazing thank you really amazing yep cool I got answer uh yeah if you want to
Sure U miss m woodro I try I try my best to create a lot of transparency and I and over the past four years I've been uh in office I've done numerous like Community venues where we say sit with the police things like that in that
nature I will say uh last year my family took a devastating hit and um maybe where I was usually most active I'm human my sister died and left behind four kids and I'm not making no excuse
and I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me it took me a little bit of time and and and me mental health is real you know and so if anybody look at my work my record I'm always creating transparency DRC you got to send this to
the ward council people uh put this on this ordinance I'm I feel like I try to be Mr transparent So when you say that um I'm not living up to my due diligence and not in a bad way I it hurts and I want to continue to to strive to be that
same elected official when I first took office and now I'm feeling a little a lot better now uh because my my my sister's kids are getting taken care of and uh by the father and so we have some personal issues that I've been dealing with and and that's probably why I
haven't been as active as I usually am but you will see a new improve Greg Johnson coming forward yeah guys I can we can't have the back and forth but the thank you yeah yeah anybody else want to come up and speak my other little Italian American
that's right a little tall yeah you are you got a couple inches on me I got Gary Val stre Raglin Drive yeah uh if this application gets sent back to the land use board will you are counsel vote against it so I I'm I'm gonna I'm
not I'm not ducking this right I'm not ducking this but I Joe I just I apologize I just have to step in sure and I do it because I have to right yes I understand they can't prejudge something right so what would happen
you're talking about the lawsuit that was filed yes yeah so that's going to go to court right uh the judge will make a decision as to whether it was properly whatever proved or whatever MH uh if it gets sent back it starts a new right um and it's a brand new trial
brand new hearing so they can't comment and prejudge as to how they would vote before they heard something and let me make that really concrete for you so I'm actually doing you a favor but I feel that that came off wrong but let's just say I stood up here and said I hate it
and it's the worst thing on earth whatever if the applicant can claim that the mayor was unduly influencing and Sue the burrow and then you'd have the C effect and a judge could say yep the mayor put his finger on the pulse and that's what happened it was UN it was in
bias so I really can't comment on that what do you in simpler terms if they said they were going to vote one way or the other the applicant after it got denied could then go to run to court and say they didn't give him a fair trial I got a fair per that it could it could
hurt either side I will say this I don't know based on the ruling if I will be able to vote because it's either a seven-man board or a Neman board I think there's an open question as whether which one it can be so now if it goes beyond 2024 I I knew you going there to
get there so y will we accept an application in 2025 so what has been said by this board right and I'll say it for them and ask them not to say it Y is that each of these conditional approvals
or licenses the one in particular that is the subject of a lawsuit uh is on a time limit it's on a clock and that clock expires December 31st so if it is not perfected right so if it's not fully approved by that time they did not
satisfy the condition by having a fully approved license by the time the clock runs out okay what I heard this board say is they are not inclined in 2025 to renew any
licenses that is that is as lawyered up as we can say it okay but did did was that clear for you yes it was okay yeah but they they they can reapply in 25 no what I said is there is what this board
has been saying two meetings yes is that there is no appetite to accept new applications in 2025 okay got so if they don't make it by the deadline it's a if there's another clock starting we're clear on that all right
thank you you got me yep all right I'll see you in quter anybody else yeah come on Tina oh it's getting hot in here now can we get some air yeah I was freezing before St questions okay Tina Shores Avon Street
um yeah my question is about 15324 what improvements are you guys planning on making on Avon and bwin I'm just wondering because they do need a few improvements go ahead oh I I love this one um so we plan on doing uh the
curbing um we plan on doing the the the black top we plan on doing the aprons correct uh certain a aprons and sidewalks and sidewalks so basically the whole bells and whistles like uh we've been doing the past other uh streets so and what are the chances they getting
another like street light at the end of the street because there's one there's like one part of AV on the street that I'm on we don't have a street light at the the very which end are you talking about um towards Westfield LA or towards McGee oh McGee okay no we could have a
discussion I don't think it's kind of dark we could put in request for I listen quite frankly you're about to give up something I I wanted to bother there's one on the other side but it's not a Stree like there's this um there's a pole and I guess it's all the wires but then is it possible we could get one
on that side yeah I think we could probably work something out I can't make any promises but that's something we could look into I actually was going to um I I'm I actually was walking around the community myself and I seen a couple of uh dark areas which I was going to pitch to Mayor and counsel but since it
was a lot of money being spended I was holding it and reserving it and I was going to just do it for the next budget where I want to go around the the community and those dark areas I want to kind of light them up if if the community is open to that to try to prevent some of the you know Cadillac converters and all the other type of uh
things that we uh have going on and you know from outside Rosel Park people come in here doing things so that was my that was my hopes at least okay great thanks thank you anybody else have't made it through the
gauntlet can we talk after the meeting I can't I can't have you back up we we'll talk after I I'll answer your question after okay anybody else want to come up and ask questions I'm seeing no one okay uh we may have motion to close the
public portion so move second all in favor I what's up was it 920 may I have a motion to adjourn so move second all in favor hi was trying to beat
it we were taking bets on how long it would go for