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okay uh this meeting is being held in accordance with the New Jersey open public meetings act and you'll notice this meeting was published in the Union County local source and the nework Star Ledger said notice that this meeting was posted in the municipal building is on copy and a copy is on file with
the office of the buror clerk are located in the directions I'm indicating if you're alerted for a fire please move in a common orderly manner to the nearest smoke free exit proper notice Haven been given the bur clerk is directed to include this statement in the minutes of the meeting please call the r councilman Petroski here councilman Johnson is absent councilman signell here councilman rabina is absent councilwoman Lions here councilman Patel is absent mayor sarella here you have a quarum mayor uh there are no oh no opening prayer Pledge of Allegiance eternal God
grant us thy help in all our duties and perplexities we ask for thy guidance give us thy protection in our dangers and Sorrows grant us thy peace Amen to flag the United States of America to the stands Nation God indivisible liberty and justice for okay uh there are no Communications for review this evening we're going
to hold on the Black History Month Proclamation although February's Black History Month um may have a motion to approve meeting minutes pending any corrections so moved second all in favor I uh may have a motion that bills and payrolls be not read in pass for payment so moved second all in favor I I uh may have a motion to open the public portion on agenda items only so moved second all in favor I if you'd like to speak please come forward to the microphone state your name and address for the record on agenda items only okay see
you no one may have a motion to close the public portion on agenda items only so moves second all in favor I I uh okay um let's start off with Kevin caught my eye man it's nice tie saw you first oh do we have um go ahead Kevin all right I'll make it quick um as you know PSG is doing the work on West cfax and um Focus
so they're setting polls that's ongoing now that's going to continue for next couple weeks uh they are going to be working this weekend setting polls shouldn't cause any disruptions though uh new sorry New Jersey American Water we had a meeting with them this week as well they're going to be doing some work on um Raglin Madison and Elanor uh main work that's going be starting at the end of the month that should take four to six weeks it's new Main and then they'll replace all the services after that Elizabeth Town Gas uh right now they're
they're holding off on Paving suer and uh w Avenue but as soon as weather breaks uh we'll schedule that work and the last is the stormur project which is ongoing right now um we have a pre-application meeting submission going to DP um in the next week or two we should have a meeting with them um they've been scheduling about like two to three four weeks out usually so I say by the end of March we should be meeting with d regarding the project and we're also in talks with the dot just regarding going down the right away and kind of which lane to stay in so that's kind of where we're
at right now any questions I got nothing thanks Kevin thank you thank you Rich you want to come up good evening everyone good evening good evening okay mayor I'll try to make it quick um I actually have two reports Snappy let's go all right let's move it along okay so the year end report for 2024 it was a very busy year total number of permits 1,996 total revenue for 2024
on the construction code element 79 $2,230 sewer connection fees [Music] $510,000 fees $10,400 and off-site Improvement fees of $50,000 total number of uniform construction code violations were 148 on the property maintenance enforcement side we had total court dispositions of 159
with fines of 2,65 there were 558 violations issued for 2024 and there were 144 Court summonses so in total 1,463 43 crossed our count on the projects 10 West Westfield Avenue building a is nearing completion but the problem with building a at this point is the parking garage isn't
done they're actually completed with their fourth fifth floor it was out there a couple of days ago um it's looking good but the parking garage is holding it up because of the requirement for the parking for the apartments based upon the Redevelopment agreement and the developers agreement with the burrow which you're all aware of so they're hoping for in April 1st of 2025 obviously April 1st 2025 for a TCO
um that is flexible it all depends on how things go uh obviously the weather's bogging them down bogging them down a little bit with the parking garage uh let's see 140 West Webster when's uh when's Building B going to be done uh Building B is complete oh sorry uh building a building so what's rented out right now two floors of building building building B is rented out Building B Building B is fully yes full TCO on building and and building a has
two floors Building B is nothing at this point okay got it okay cool yeah yeah I gave them a certificate of approval for the hallways for the common areas because they are complete with the alarm system and suppression system y but they are really they're really tight because of the parking that's the whole problem with that yep yep sorry that's okay um and then we have uh the hunter project again 140 that is moving along as you can see the exterior finishes are nearly complete uh they are calling for their
rough and inpections at this point so then they could start sheetrocking there's been some updates they will be putting in a generator which is really a good thing um which of course then the elevator has to be tied into the generator it's part of code part of the code requirement 450 West West West Westfield Avenue um that one a full Co I just issued a full Co unconditional Co on that property they are 100% complete I
have all the signups from uh Somerset soow Conservation District along with our engineer uh neglia our special project engineer uh neglia and everything else is totally complete so that is fully coed uh one quick note on building uh B for 10 West um Wing Stop is proceeding with their tenant fit out they're moving along they kind of again with the weather they got a little bit bogged down but they are done with
all their undergrounds along with Chestnut that street we have two tenant fit outs that are occurring right now so one of them is a uh Workout Studio very nice young lady and the other one will be a coffee shop but a highering coffee shop similar to Starbucks nice cool okay so that's looking good on the development side I actually have a meeting scheduled next week with the owner and their representative from the movie theater and I know uh councilwoman Lions this is really in your in your wheelhouse yes that particularly I want to see they
have a propos proposal for us us being you um so I will see what that what they're proposing I will bring it back to the administrator and he will hand let okay yeah great um so otherwise it's been a pretty active year as you're aware um our property maintenance officer has been out um so we've been covering inhouse our uh Property Maintenance her her her role
in both Property Maintenance uh resale certificates and apartment house inspection so we've been doing that internally in addition I have expanded with no budget impact the inspection hours um so our building inspectors our building inspections occur Monday Tuesday Wednesday Tuesday evenings Thursday evenings for the residents that come home from work and Saturday mornings with no budget impact okay with our
current Staffing levels um it seems to be working out very well our electrical inspector is also a building inspector so that's why we have the Monday Tuesday and Wednesday time frames just a real quick note um last year we had an audit from the Department of Community Affairs uh Bureau of Regulatory Affairs that oversees the operation so there have been several changes instituted by the governor and the legislature over the last couple of years in relation
to expanded thirdparty inspections so basically as an agency we are required to do an conduct an inspection within three business days not inclusive of 24 hours notice so if an agency misses the window for whatever reason it doesn't matter the personnel's sick they don't want to hear it they are then allowed to go to a third-party agency not only for that inspection but for the rest of the project so as an example if we missed
a footing in inection time frame for 10 West Westfield Avenue huge project we missed it somebody was sick or somebody couldn't get out there whatever the circumstances were the developer then has the right to go to a third party to complete the entire project with a special inspector that they pay for and the worst part about it for Ken is the municipality has to reimburse the third party agency based
upon the thirdparty agency these costs not our costs which could be a lot higher so I've been really trying to move the pieces around making sure we're Within These statutory time frames so we don't have these issues so far knock on wood everything's been going so that's concludes my report so anybody has any questions yeah I one any update on the L League field are they going to use the net in or right now
I spoke to Chris um I think you know Chris Kos the owner yeah so they're looking at both right now the windows are in so I know the windows are not shatterproof I actually went there to look at him yeah I don't know who said that but they're not they're tempered but they're not shatter um so he's going to have to install netting I spoke to Val his son they're fully aware of it right so they're they're on board with it so just to let you know the 12y olds play there and they can hit oh I know I
it's a bit for Rosel Park yeah right Keith remember playing down there okay um but yeah I'm just afraid uh there's going to be problems there so okay I'll make sure it gets done prior to the city that's fine thank you Rich you said the TCO is that for the parking deck uh April 1 what that would be for the parking deck and at least two floors of building a so they they got to go together is that they have to go together because they're out of parking
they're using the lower four level parking which I Ted in building a to suffice for the parking in Building B so I that's how I was able to give them a full TCO for all the residential units so so everything goes well April 1 okay so go back to the uh I'm one day I'll stop calling the raski site whatever I still call it the I I I I so I noticed they car their snow and the sidewalk
who where's the uh line of demarcation for whose property under the railroad or who where is like the sidewalk under the railroad or or how far do they go is that so we could talk offline but I just yeah I'll find out um I'll have actually look at the site because they're doing something as soon as you're going to the railroad they're doing something maybe a little lot hard right but then you know is that something now there's a Salk and activity is it something we are
responsible for the talking about the area that had the trailer no just so the property under the sidewalk under the railroad TR so I do have an answer for you on that one okay so I was just told by their project manager that they're actually going to lease that property from d and being that they're leasing the property they will be responsible for the snow removal underneath it so they they they'll take care of that up to the Wellness Shop to the right okay on the
right yes okay that'll be a good thing so all right I we'll keep in a loop with that thank you that's all I have okay thank you thank you um okay uh Captain want to come up everyone um Chief Reno submitted his report uh few highlights from the report first uh Corporal Michael Smith retired February 1st after uh over 30 years of service to our burrow as a police
officer and dispatcher like to thank him for his service and wish him a happy and healthy retirement and with his retirement we've uh conducted interviews to fill his open position uh the chief hopes to have a candidate for your consideration in the near future following the completion of our background investigations um second the uh ribbon cutting and dedication of the new Edward nordp Wellness Center occurred on January 19th uh which was the 5-year anniversary of Officer NPS passing we like to thank everyone for their support of this project as well as
the vendors that helped make it happen um it's been a great addition to our department um which our officers use uh uh daily and finally on January 30th the uh lead graduation ceremony with our fifth grade students at Aline Robert Gordon and Sherman occurred uh the program was taught by detective poosi detective Hokinson officer C bero and officer Matthews we like to thank the Board of Education superintendent principles teachers and students for their particip participation and support of
the program and that includes uh my report any questions cool thanks thank you thank you John go up evening everyone I'd like to thank mayor signarello and the Town Council excuse me for giving me the opportunity to provide a brief update the goal of the Rosell Park Recreation Department is
to meet the recreational needs of our community as part of our Department's effort to meet these needs and expand Community Services our department provides a wide range of programs membership and Recreation we currently have over 450 Recreation members the recreation department has 23 programs 25 employees utilizing 11 locations homework and Aftercare we currently have 121 members we are transporting and chaperoning over 98 students daily Aftercare has 13 programs 20 20
employees and growing winter sports and activity programming offseason 3rd through 5ifth middle school and high school volleyball on Wednesdays between 6:15 and 9:15 in the asyc and there are 80 participating offseason 8U and 10U softball on Saturday mornings in the asyc they have 30 participating boys and girls wrestling has begun the wrestling program consists of kindergarten through
second grade Central Jersey JB varsity and a grade school team they have 55 participating teams and individuals are competing throughout the state they are representing Rosel Park very well next competitions are individual League state qualifiers and state tournaments wrestling competition schedules are available on Team snap for every level boys and girls basketball league play has begun the basketball program consists of kindergarten 1 2 third through fifth grade middle school boys
and girls they have 100 5 participating we are competing in League with neighboring towns like kennworth and gwood they're attempting to get each team 16 regular season games the playoffs will begin on the week of February 24th and the championship game will be played on Friday February 28th at 7M in the Rosel Park High School main gym Rosel Park performing arts program has 27 participating their year-end performance will be held on March
3rd at 700 p.m. in the asy we're pleased to report that our department has made the following changes to the recreational programming and procedures all recreational employees and volunteers have a criminal history screening and are certified in CPR and AED we remain committed to providing the best possible care and programming in addition we believe these changes have afford afforded our community members the requested programming the asyc has recently hosted the following Scout meetings Recreation committee meetings public Affair
community Community event meetings njsiaa official meetings cpeg meetings PTA meetings fifth grade parent meetings recreational sports events CPR and AED certification and Sport pitcher days to name a few as always you can contact the recreation department at Ros Recreation Rosel park.net that completes our February Recreation Department update I'd be happy to answer any questions I just want to congratulate your family and especially your
daughter for winning the Union County Championship thank you okay thank you the girls had two they had two champ first year program two Union County Champions who what was the other girl Jasmine Jasmine okay congratulations that's awesome thank you thank you so much for everything have a good night everyone all right Reuben you're on the clock starting now than
John for sure thank you Mar good evening uh the center has resumed excess classes for our residents um for the year seniors 55 older can participate Monday to Friday 11:00 a.m. uh for exercise classes and 18 and older and join classes in the nights at 700 p.m. uh the transportation will also be provided to the seniors uh for all the activities including Bingo trips ball
trips and um Casino trips and Etc uh on Monday February 10th seniors will be enjoying a Valentine's breakfast party at Sherman Elementary School at 9:30 a.m. the the event includes special prizes refreshments and entertainment on February 18 at 700 p.m. there will be a community meeting at the center to discuss this year's Halloween event on Bender Avenue the uh purpose of this meeting is to gather thoughts uh ideas and uh experiences from residents of Bender
Avenue to help plan a fun safe and memorable celebration for our neighborhood uh on February 20th uh the nutrition Education team from the Community Food Bank of New Jersey and the Union County Office of Health Management will host uh cooking matters class from 1: p.m. to 2 p.m. uh this education class will emphasize strategies for reducing grocery shopping time planning easy and uh delicious meals and saving money uh
and I've started working on scheduling our public events for this year to offset the cost of financial sponsorship requests was submitted to the county uh County of Union for our annual fireworks for uh $330,000 the Festival of India for $8,000 Mischief Night concert and program for $6,000 and for our annual annual Christmas celebration for 26,700 uh sponsorship request for our middle uh mobile stage was also submitted uh for our events uh
San Anthony F uh fireworks October 1est juneth uh Italian headage Festival Mischief Night counceling program and for our annual Christmas celebration and that concludes my report mayor any questions thank you a little too slow uh okay uh Ken Andrew you guys got anything just a quick reminder taxes
are due by Monday February 10th without interest and sore bills are way past due please get them paid thank you mayor just have a couple things I just want to report on for start of the year um something that's on the agenda tonight is a uh the uh uh LED uh LED safe inspections um and establishing a procedure by ordinance for that so I held a meeting uh this month and we've been going through this process uh Rich has been involved also
um we've the Burrow's contract with LW environmental to do the Burrow's lead based t uh lead based paint inspection uh program uh this is in compliance with a law that was passed in 2021 by the legislature and signed into law by the governor it just recently went into effect this law specifically requires that one one family two family and multiple dwelling rentals be inspected and certified as either Leed safe every three years or lad free one time it only applies to dwellings that were built uh during
1978 uh or or Beyond so um more more to come and more to discuss potentially in the ordinance um it is the program is entirely uh administered by a thirdparty vendor at no cost to the burrow and I can get into that uh if the governing body so desires um something else to come up and burough has made several and really multiple announcements about uh pac's begun their 69 kilovolt project uh it commenced on February 3rd um you'll see them installing polls right now if there's anything
uh because I did have had a few questions this week uh at the clerk's office uh if your lights are flickering if something's happening with your electrical it has nothing to do with that project they're not even touching the wires yet they're doing they're really just doing infrastructure work um and it has nothing to do with electrical at this point um so call pacng and and Report the issue uh I know a couple residents did have um you know just random issues uh they called psng they sent the troubleshooter out and and rectified it was an individual service line
so just don't assume that it's part of a bigger issue uh with the project um something I'm particularly excited about I think the governing body will be excited about when they see a little bit more of it is um held a kickoff meeting with Civic plus um this past month uh to kick off the website redesign and relaunch project for the burrow um right now our website is in abysmal shape it's pretty much irrelevant to the community um and uh it's it's kind of run its course so uh we contracted with Civic Plus at the end of last year we
kind of capitalized on some year-end sales uh we're able to get a good deal the project is going to uh run through with several Milestones I know I've been speaking with councilman Rina about it as a technology liaison a little bit um there's two things that are really great about it it'll increase um accessibility to those um with with different abilities and and handicaps uh one that's just a great thing in general and two it also is compliance with uh new attorney general guidelines Nationwide um uh along those along those lines um
and they'll be a a a automatic built-in translate tool which you see on a lot of modern websites that that candidly we just don't have so um there's way more than that and more to come again I probably expect a launch date in July or August um in some news just to be Front word facing uh about it um the burrow did receive uh a visit from New Jersey Department of Labor posos and New Jersey Department of uh Health pasos on the 14th and the 23rd of January with
regard to anous concerns and complaints at the DPW Yard uh the burrow management and the Union uh took part in uh meetings with both entities and walk through uh several deficiencies were identified uh the burrow received a report um respectively within a week to two weeks uh depending on the agency after uh those walkthroughs uh the B is currently uh implementing or compiling a corrective action plan we've had ongoing conversations with pasos about uh those
plans um which will be imp implemented in a timely manner and if extensions are needed they'll be communicated to the agencies uh in order to gain approval uh in that respect so I just wanted to update the governing body on it and I'll keep you updated as the progress is made along those lines um uh something else interesting coming up for the year so took part in a cdbg cdbg revenue sharing committee meeting uh we do it every year um as a reminder we typically get about $200,000 Plus for
our roads as part of this uh uh initiative is part of this grant program one of the conversations um because it is funded by by Hud um is we're Revenue sharing committee is they're going to be Revenue to share uh we don't really know right now um we're projecting that there will be something but really to be determined and as a reminder we applied this year for the public improvements Grant um for Warren Avenue the entire length of Warren Avenue so um you know there would be substantial dollars would go a long way in in mitigating the impact
of local tax s if we are able to get $220,000 like we did last year um and candidly we are the model for spending money in an efficient way with this program so we would probably expect to receive uh at least that amount of money uh this year if the program continues and fingers across that it does some quick data eight eight Street opening permits were issued over the last month two were emergencies five were normal one was unreported for a total revenue of $61,000 uh
there were 59 op request 361 dog licenses and 68 cat licenses last month that's all I have mayor thank you cool is that everybody DPW we're just have in for close session okay uh may have motion to accept the reports of Department submitted second all in favor I okay thanks guys uh Greg B you're sticking around is the only one right yep cool uh please read ordinance number 2803 by title Mr
Mayor ordinance 2803 is an ordinance for second reading and public hearing and ordinance maning chapter 7 section 39 subsection two of the code of the bur Rosa Park entitled handicap parking on streets for private residences may have motion to open the public hearing on ordance number 2803 so moved second all in favor I I uh anybody want to come and speak on this one I'm seeing no one have a motion to close the public hearing on ordinance number 2803 so mov second all in favor I may have a motion to adopt ordinance number 2803 so moved second
there any discussion oh sorry what do you have to say about it Joseph second okay you uh please call the RO councilman petki yes councilman sarella yes Council woman Alliance yes three in the affirmative the ordinance is adopted wild uh please read ordinance number 2804 by title yes may ordinance 2804 is an ordinance for second reading and public hearing an ordinance amending chapter 7 section 39 subsection one of the code of the bur Rosa Park entitled handicap parking on streets uh may I have a motion to open the public hearing
on Ord number 2804 Z moved second uh all in favor I any want to come up and speak on this I am seeing no one may I have a motion to close the public hearing on order December 2804 so moved second all in favor I I have a motion to adopt order December 2804 so moved second there any discussion please call the RO councilman Petroski yes councilman signorella yes counc woman Lions yes three in the affirmative three absent please read or number adopted 805
by title yes mayor ordinance 2805 is an ordinance amending chapter 2 section 36 of the code of the B Rosal Park entitled shade tree committee may have motion to open the public hearing on ordance number 2805 so moved second all in favor I I anything um May oh yeah seeing no one may have motion close the public portion on ordinance number 2805 Z moved second all in favor I may have a motion to adopt ordinance number 2805 so moved
second is there any discussion please call the rooll councilman Petroski yes councilman sarella yes councilwoman Lions yes three three in the affirmative none in the negative ordinance is adopted please read ordinance number 2806 by title this mayor ordinance 2806 is an ordinance for introduction ordinance amending ordinance number 2802 fixing the salary ranges of non-union employees and officials of the ver roal Park in the county of union state of New Jersey have motion to approve ordinance 2806 for introduction and fix the date for second reading and public hearing is February 20th 2025 so moved
second is there any discussion please call the role councilman patoski yes Council signorella yes councilwoman Lions yes three in the affirmative none in the negative the ordinance is introduced please read ordinance number 2807 by title yes mayor ordinance 2807 is an ordinance amending chapter 16 of the code of the B Rosa Park entitled building and construction establishing a new section two entitled lead Bas paint inspections may have motion to approve ordinance number 2807 for introduction and fix date for second reading and public hearing is February 20th 2025 so moved second is there any discussion
please call the RO councilman troski yes councilman sella yes councilwoman Lions yes three in the affirmative none in the negative the ordinance is introduced all matters listed within as are considered routine and non-controversial by the council will be approved by one motion there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the GU the governing body so 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 res uh general orders please read all resolutions by title yes mayor resolution 5125 is authorizing and directing the fire chief to execute a fire hydrant authorization for to
facilitate the request for the installation of one public fire hydrant adjacent to 140 West Webster Avenue 5225 is accepting the resignation of Rudy Patel as alternate member number four of the municipal L use board 5325 is authorizing the hanging of a banner in Michael J M Park advertising the Rosa Park high schools 2025 musical resolution 5425 is appointing Carlin Ward Ashen Hart LLC as 2025 special tax Council 5525 is requesting permission from the county of Union to hang banners to close Chestnut Street at various times and for various public events
during 2025 5625 is authorizing renewal of the shared services agreement between the buros park and the township of Union for the Ros of Park Police Department's use of the Union Township firearms training facility for calendar year 2025 5725 is approving the time due calculation in terms of final payment for Michael Smith 5825 is authorizing the bur clerk to auction unclaimed Vehicles 5925 is recognizing the restructuring of Phoenix advisor LLC as Phoenix advisor a division of secur First Security Municipal advisers Inc resolution 6025 is accepting the resignation
of Albert AO from the Rosa Park fire department resolution 6125 is authorizing change order number one to RS Construction LLC for the project Rosa Park Housing rehabilitation program case number RP 56201 02 in an amount of $4,350 increase to reflect the total contract amount of $50,000 uh 6225 is authorizing a purch order with Jardine Meer salmon spra and suser as Municipal land use board attorney
for year 2025 and amount not to exceed $10,000 6325 is authorizing a purchase order with the neglia group as Municipal planner for the year 2025 in an amount not to exceed $155,000 6425 is awarding a professional service contract with the negly group for professional planning services in support of the burough Rosal Park's fourth round affordable housing compliance efforts in an amount not to exceed $5,000 6525 is awarding a Professional Services contract with MCM and Scotland and Balman for redevelopment legal Redevelopment Council services in support of the bur Rosal
Park's fourth round affordable housing compliance efforts in an amount not to exceed $5,000 and resolution 6625 reauthorizing a lease with dings Irish pub and restaurant for three off street parking stalls located within Municipal parking lot number one in an amount of $293 through February 28th 2025 uh are we pulling anything okay may have a motion to approve the resolutions remaining on the consent agenda so moved second
all in favor I nice uh burrow Council and committees uh Madam council president uh do you want to do your report first sure good evening mayor and Council and residents um January uh we had 435 days in January 2025 uh it was the longest month of My Life um no so I went to the library meeting uh there are a lot of things that the library is doing please go
to um the Rosal Park Library um Facebook page they definitely have all their events listed there um they really have a lot of things happening right now so definitely encourage the the residents to go out and I also attended the Community Affairs and public events meeting and just like rupin had mentioned we are really kicking off the events starting March through the end of the year so um we encourage everyone to come out it's not for us it's for
you guys um I also attended a Pizza Bowl five did you guys hear about this no yes Pizza Bowl five is a organization actually a Facebook page that we um get all the pizzerias and all different uh businesses in New Jersey and to come and compete and I the reason I mentioned is iorio Deli was in there for the meatball contest and they won third so I'd like to mention them because it was it was
cool to see somebody from from town and um it benefits also tunnels to to tunnel to Towers so it's a great organization and fun night um something that's coming up so we just uh put it out there if you know a special woman in Rosal Park we are doing woman of the year we'll be honoring her in the beginning of March at our council meeting um but I encourage all the residents please uh submit someone we'd love to celebrate the woman that you know and um
and just to highlight her so uh please participate in that it's it's just getting to know someone special in the town um that's pretty much it that's my report mayor and uh if you need me our lines at Rosal park.net or 908 726 8773 uh councilman thank you Rosanna uh councilman signell good evening I attended the uh grand opening today of the teacher Credit Union facility on
chestn tree and Lincoln I passed it uh numerous times over the years under construction it's um it's kind of like uh going into a bank whatever but they didn't have any money for me to withdraw from there today so they a nice little coffee uh and there today and it was nice to see this facility opened up on downtown chest Street and um I just have one thing about I know we had a little inclement weather and the last couple weeks
here and there and I want thanks to the PD and DPW doing a good job and you know a lot of people don't know about the snow streets in Rosa Park and I think we've been doing a good job on posting them to um the app and correct me if I'm wrong uh uh Andrew the um First Alert yeah uh and look knockwood we don't have any really really large uh and hope we don't
have any events but if there's a fire hydrant in front of your house and we do get a large amount of snow help help the fire department out and shovel it it it ain't going to take much if you live on a 50 by uh 50 foot Frontage and you have the hydrant take a couple minutes I literally I'm not making this up one night I saw a guy putting the snow on the hydrant and I said to him really so anyway help out that's all I have end of my report thank you Council thank you
mayor uh first of all I want to send my condolences out to Rocky Nelson Carl uh a fireman in roselt park for 60 plus years yeah um uh what service he uh did for this burrow um you know my heart goes out to him and uh um for all the years of service and everything like that um as far as Joe you know anyone that had more time than
you no I still tell one of the ACT active firemen yeah that I know of okay but yeah 60 plus years so um okay on January 19th I attended the recreation story time um it was for the first time I thought it was okay uh with the attendance a lot of the kids enjoyed it um for what I talking to Tina Schwarz she wants to do another one in March so uh hopefully uh you know the word
gets out and they have another one and successful like the one on January 19th um I attended the uh special meeting on uh mayor and councel on the 23rd of January uh Monday was my uh the fire department meeting again most of the time um uh they give me the uh work orders and everything so uh um you know so again uh I commend the fire
department for all the um you know service to this burrow um and everything so like I always say they they are my heroes okay um the Historic Society are going to have a couple fundraisers more to come they're going to be selling this booklet um um they I believe in the beginning of April they're going to have a uh a fundraiser at dings uh bar um where they get 10% of the take um they're going to have their
first meeting on the 17th of uh of February of this year and uh if you uh if you want to join just come down they meet the third Monday of every month acept for July and August and uh uh again I know I keep bringing it up but the legion uh if we can help them out um you know like my famous saying is um we needed them and they
need us now um but I know on the 22nd of this month the Carpenters Union is going to install a new floor down at the bar area so um and there's more projects that um that's going to happen toward the end of the year I mean this year um if you need to contact me get me at J patoski Rosell park.net 908 666 7821 and I'd like to wish the
mayor a belated birthday birthday 37 37 I've been I tell you were 29 doing this for since I was 30 okay okay happy birthday man wow indeed thank you thank you councilman uh okay I have nothing to add uh please read my appointments into the record yes mayor appointing uh Evo I can't say TR TR I'm sorry Evo TR tranic
you'll tell me when I see you uh 202 Galloping Hill Road Rosell Park New Jersey 07204 as a me uh as alternate number four of the municipal lus sport effective immediately to fill the unexpired term of Rudy Patel set to expire December 31st 2025 also appointing Dominic pno of 139 Columbus Place Rosell Park New Jersey as a member of the shade tree committee effective February 13 2025 to fill the vacant position with a term set to expire December 31st 2025 and finally appointing Eric lck of 59 West Clay
Avenue Rosell Park New Jersey as a member of the shade tree committee effective February 13 2025 to fill a vacant position with a term set to expired December 31st 2025 uh okay may I have a motion to open the public portion on any subject second all in favor I I wish come up and speak
Michael Ryan 515 Locust could you elaborate on the PSG 69 kilovolt uh project and uh what what specifically is it and what effect is it going to have on Rosell Park so the immediate effect on Rosal Park are uh it's part of a larger Regional project that you may have seen in places like Fanwood kennworth um I don't know if
they're in Rosell yet yet but um Westfield um they're running much larger utility poles or you know 15 to 20 foot larger utility poles to carry a 69 KV load on them um in terms of the immediate effect to Rosel Park it'll candidly just be visual um there'll be some traffic issues in order to facilitate the installation um once they're out of Rosel Park we're one of the last legs of the project most of the project the regional project is done um
they'll then go into Rosel and I believe they continue through Rosel ultimately to their their destination Point um they're they're connecting two points with 69 kV line you identify the streets in Rosell Park that are the polls are going to be on West kfax Avenue uh from Market Street to Locust and then Locust to the Rosel border okay thank you you're welcome
uh Tim kley 2113 Charlotte Terrace I I saw councilman Patel is not here so I guess I just give you guys an update uh environmental commission's next repair Cafe what did ruin talk about this U March 23rd at the casano center that's Sunday I had somebody ask me about that March 23rd sorry I'm talking Yeah March 23rd that's a Sunday that's we're trying to change it see if we can get a different mix of repair folks maybe get some bikes this time Tool Sharpening
like that so excited about that we'll get Flyers out to you guys soon and you can uh you know help inform the residents we we have a lot of excited volunteers we don't always have a lot of customers so we'd love to see more people coming through uh I know somebody who wants a lot of jewelry repaired so that's that's great that's one we definitely have y just another one I wanted to I wanted to raise I think a resident I know wanted to is probably going to mention it to you at some point but just want to
get your guys thoughts on this uh I'm hearing I was I was told there was a Homeland Security official making an arrest in town yep in the bur earlier this week yep as long as you guys are aware wanted to make you aware just curious if there are any plans to you know whether it's Cassano somewhere else increase some educational opportunities for residents who might fall into a drag net yeah I would say uh so a couple things um so we are um we're
informed of these item actions we do not help you know we do not do anything other than didn't even think it's just it's like a SWAT team right when SWAT teams come in or there's a drug raid they come in they inform us and we're informed um as far as education programs I I I have a catch up with um somebody from the county uh tomorrow um they're doing a lot of this and they have a I think a wider role out a lot of this education where you know C they just
have more resources and i' I'd rather kind of highlight some of what they're doing versus doing our own thing um but I think it's a it's a valid thing to to to raise awareness for so cool but uh yeah we we've spoken about this it's actually funny I I talked to Andrew I'm like it's not a 0% chance this happens in Rosell Park lo and behold a week later there was a raid so yeah I mean when there's quotas in place they're going to happen they're going to cast a wider net we live in a diverse area to yeah yeah I I don't I don't know
if any of us could produce our parents birth certificates or proof of citizenship on on demand I was told I was told producing papers is something that we tried to fight a war against right like it's not the best thing on Earth but uh we have a lot in question a lot of federal money that we might or might not get oh I had another question about that but I'm I I'm not touching that one tonight yeah all right fair enough yeah no it's it's going to be a rough couple of months we I years right
but a understanding what exactly The New Normal is I think is going to take some adjustment and probably a lot of lawsuits yeah so cool thank you MH uh I'm seeing no one else uh may have a motion to close the public portion on any subject so moved second all in favor I I uh okay uh we're going to go into close session guys um you're sticking around public I have to kick you guys out but thank you for coming I'll do that yep
no no oh yeah you could leave thank you so much for coming yep whereas the mayor and Council the burough Ros Ros bar wish should discuss matters which were described by the New Jersey open public meetings Act njsa 10 4-12 and whereas the general nature of the subject to be discussed in close session are contract negotiations with the city of Elizabeth contract negotiations with the burough of Kenworth contract negotiations with the township of Union contract negotiations with the township of Clark contract negotiations with Wells Fargo Bank contract negotiations with
mury at Park Square urban renewal Rosal Park LLC and a personal matter within the Department of Code Enforcement and whereas the time when and the circumstances under which the items discussed in close session will be disclosed to the public at a future time now therefore be it resolved of the mayor and Council of the B Ros burough Rosel Park County of union state of New Jersey to now adjourn the open portion of the meeting and open a closed portion of the meeting to discuss the aformentioned item in a motion to go into close and adopt the resolution motion so moved second favor I I thanks Ken all right
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all right okay do I have a motion to go back into uh Open session so move second all in favor I do have a motion to adjourn hold on mayor in close session the governing body discussed seven items uh contract negotiations city of Elizabeth contract negotiations B of Kenworth contract negotiations Union Township contract negotiations with the township of Clark contract negotiations
with Meridia Park Square urban renewal Rosal Park LLC and a Personnel matter with the Department of Code Enforcement uh no formal action is being taken at this time have motion to adjourn so moved second in favor I thank you
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