thank you everybody and welcome to the regular monthly meeting of the mayor and council being held Monday April 14th 2025 6:30 p.m Missy could you please call the role mayor Niato here Council President McGawan present Council Del
Cohen here Council here Councilman Kley here Councilman Erico here Councilman Guzman here Thank you If you're willing and able could you please stand for the salute to the flag i aliance
Thank you Miss could you please read the provisions in compliance with the open public meetings law chapter 231 public of public laws of 1975 notice of this meeting was transmitted to the record and Herald News and filed with the burough clerk on December 23rd 2024 and
February 11 2025 and is posted on the bulletin board outside of Barrow Hall Thank you Um presentations Councilwoman Thank you Mayor Um today I'd like to present a proclamation in honor of Arbor
Day which is April 25th 2025 And I'd like to just read that into the record Whereas in 1872 J Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees And whereas this holiday called Arbor Day
was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska And whereas Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world And whereas trees can reduce the erosion of our precious top soil by wind and water cut heating and cooling costs moderate
the temperature clean the air produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife And whereas trees are a renewable resource giving us paper wood for our homes fuel for our fires and countless other wood products And whereas trees in our burrow increase property values
enhance the economic vitality of business areas and beautify our community And whereas trees wherever they are planted are a source of joy and spiritual renewal And now therefore Mayor Frank Nanziato of the Burrow of Rutherford hereby proclaims April 25th
2025 as Arbor Day In the burrow of Rutherford I urge all citizens to support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands to support our city's urban forestry program and be it further resolved that we urge all citizens to plant trees to gladden hearts and
promote the well-being of present and future generations Thank you Thank you Councilwoman Uh Brian engineers report Thank you Mayor Uh we are making progress on Diamond 4 The Assad was installed last Thursday We need a couple of weeks to
let it root and uh some good sunny days which hopefully are on the way Uh the press box has been constructed It's been roughed out We've contacted the um AV uh vendor in um in Rutherford to see what they need to do to put the uh PA system
in Uh so basically uh we're going to have continuous work on the project till it's done and we see that coming towards the end of the month to turn it over back to the burrow So we're getting close and um we worked through the winter Uh wasn't a great winter to work through but we're catching up now as as
fast as we can Thank you Brian Anybody have any questions for him seeing none So you're you're good to go Right You're good to go Uh review of the changes to the proposed agenda Missy
yes we handed out an updated resolution number 106 as there was a typo in it On page two we'll be withdrawing the ordinance under Councilman Guzman pertaining parking meters On page
three we'll be under consent we'll be authorizing the resignation and acceptance of Paul Hemmonder from the public works effective April 26 2025 That'll be the resignation will be under me Yeah it'll be under consent So we
don't need to point Okay All right Thanks Anybody else any changes i have one addition I'll be adding Connor Fox code uh to code enforcement officer effective April 15 2025 in accordance with the rules of
civil service I'd ask for a motion Motion I have a motion Sorry by Councilman Kley May I have a second second Second by Councilman Quattron Any questions or comments
seeing none I have a roll call Council President McGawan Yes Council Debor Con Yes Counciloman Cotron Yes Councilman Kley yes Councilman Erico yes Council Guzman Yes Thank you everybody
Ordinance is on first reading Councilman Kley Thank you Mayor Um so brief explanation We went through this in Q4 of 2024 but uh we went and did some review work I'd like to thank Councilman Erico for all his help with this and our burough attorneys uh that
we could iron out something a bit more ironclad and beneficial to uh our community Uh this effectively is amending our current tattoo studio uh cosmetic art establishments and allowing for what we uh know to be called a class 8 tattoo studio
um opportunity and that is artistic tattoos We currently are allowing for cosmetic tattoos within uh the bureau Um there are some slight amendments to it We are restricting uh the class 8 licensing to the B3 zoning Um there is some other language surrounding hours of
operation uh the not to exceed 11 p.m very similar to what we do for our restaurants uh in the business zones And um this is really just following along the state lines The body art establishment shall accommodate no more than one client per licensed art artist at a time So those are the three
components that have been altered and edited since we discussed this last uh last quarter Um Missy will you please read the ordinance by title only an ordinance to repeal chapter 69 of the burough code entitled permanent cosmetics establishments and replace it
with a new chapter 13 entitled body art establishments and to a chap to amend chapter 131 entitled zoning to permit body art establishments in certain areas under certain circumstances Thank you Missy I make a motion to move that the ordinance be passed on first
read and advertised according to law I have a motion by Councilman K May I have a second second Second by Councilman Delray Con Any questions or comments by the council council President Thank you Mayor Thank you Mayor I just want Is
this uh Thank you I just wanted to uh thank the councilman for um acknowledging and addressing the issues and concerns that were raised by the planning board um and had those taken into consideration as well as the ones that I raised as well So thank you for
your stewardship and your advocacy and your good work on this Thank you Thank you Anybody else councilman Guzman Thank you very much Mayor Um I' I'd too like to thank my council colleagues for working hard and uh bring taking this
back and reviewing all the concerns Uh my biggest concern was uh the the zoning and I I really appreciate your hard work in zoning in and keeping this to V3 So thank you very much for your hard work I applaud you for it Thank you Thank you
Anybody else councilman Thank you mayor Um I was not here when this originally came up but I do want to make a point for the record that I think is significant um which is that even though this ordinance is going to um assuming it's passed benefit one particular business uh we're we're doing this as a
matter of policy um and I think it's important just to avoid any sort of uh spectre of spot zoning or things like that But I I think as a general statement uh you know in situations where there is a non-conforming use like a non-conforming business or property in
a certain zone um the easier path forward is the board of adjustments or the board of which is the zoning board in the bureau That's the board that can accommodate um sort of specific exceptions to our our ordinances This is what you know we're doing as a a public policy change I just want to be clear about that in our uh you know our record
here so that we ever look back This is what we're doing we're not benefiting one particular business even though obviously a business will be benefited Thank you Anybody else i'll just add that that was my reasoning Um I'm glad that Councilman
uh took the time worked very hard on this and I applaud him for his efforts Um and um we'll just move forward and move toward our vote Council President McGowan yes Council Del Cohen yes Council Gone
yes Councilman Kley yes Councilman Eric yes Councilman Guzman yes Thank you Congratulations We do have one more read though Councilman um Guzman
Thank you very much Mayor I have uh ordinance on first read establishing a handicap space on Arthur Drive Missy would you please read the ordinance by title only an ordinance to amend and revise chapter 126 vehicles and traffic of the burough code of the Burough Rutherford to establish a handicap
parking space on Arthur Drive A motion to move that the ordinance be passed on first reading and advertised according to law I have a motion by Councilman Guzman I have a second Second Second by council president Any questions or comments seeing none I have a roll call
Council president McGawan Yes Councilman Del Con yes Councilman Quell yes Councilman Kley yes Councilman Eric yes Councilman Guzman Yes Thank you Second readings Council President Thank you Mayor This evening we are passing the
ordinance uh to exceed the municipal budget and establish a cap bank Missy can you please read um the ordinance by title only the calendar year 2025 ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish cap bank Thank you I make a motion to
move that the ordinance be passed on second reading and advertised according to law I have a motion by the council president I have a second Second Second by councilman Kokley Any questions or comments seeing none have a roll call Council President McGallen Yes Council Del Oh
I'm sorry Uh we'll have a public hearing on this Anybody from the public wishing to speak on this please step up to the microphone state your name and address Please keep your comments five minutes or less Seeing none going to close to the public and I'll open up for any council comment Seeing none may I have a roll
call Council President McGowan yes Council Del Cohen yes Council yes Councilman Kley Yes Councilman Eric Yes Councilman Gusman Yes We now have a public hearing submission regarding the Bergen County Open Space
Trust Fund application to Triumphfield Playground Improvements Can administrator will speak County Anybody from the public wishing to speak on this matter seeing none anybody from the
council council President Thank you mayor Um I am very excited about this application in identifying opportunities and locations across the municipality that we felt would best uh benefit um
residents as we continue um our good work I believe at Memorial Field and all of the different locations that one area there's a small little play area behind um Trion Field that anyone who goes to games we know
that the kids love to go back there and play It is extraordinarily dated um and and it's still incredibly used And so to just update that as we are updating all of that surrounding um and to be able to
do it with uh this financial support was I I believe a very judicious decision on our part and I'm I'm looking forward to this application So thank you to the burough administrator and our CFO for their good work and in assisting us moving forward Thank you council
president Anybody else seeing none we're going to now go back to the regular hearing of citizens Anybody from the public wishes to speak please step forward to the microphone state your name and address and keep your comments for 5 minutes or less please David
excuse me Can you move closer to the microphone thank you David Schneider a decent way Is that better you really have to get Yeah it's on It's on Really close to it Okay David Schneider 8 Eastern Way By now you may
be thinking "What's wrong with this guy why does he keep talking when he knows nobody's listening see all this stuff about police enforcement and road design and public safety is really only a small part of the story To tell the full story I need to tell you why I live here and why I
keep coming to these meetings It's a story about the kind of place I want to live and the kind of place I think Rutherford wants to be If only we could muster the political will to make it so Rewind back to the early to mid 2000s At that time I'm living in Brooklyn and as
an avid mountain biker I frequently go to the many excellent state parks in New Jersey to ride my bike Sometimes on the way home I go down Route 17 and see a neighborhood off to the right with a lot of trees and think to myself that looks like the kind of place I'd like to live
I look into it and find that this place is called Rutherford nicknamed the Burrow of Trees When I learned that it also has a train station downtown and is considered one of the rare walkable suburbs in New Jersey I'm sold Now having brought up that term walkable
let's define what a walkable place is and is not A place that you drive to and then walk around is not walkable That's a mall And New Jersey already has more than enough of those A walkable place is somewhere you live
If you need to go to the bank post office library school to get some groceries or want to have dinner on a Saturday night you walk there You may even work in town or want to go to a council meeting so you walked there May take five or 10 minutes May even take 15
or 20 minutes but that's okay because Rutherford is a nice place to walk around and nobody's in a rush And it sure beats fighting all the other angry stressed out and frustrated or just plain nasty and aggressive drivers on the road This is a place that's built around you
as a person not you as a driver A place where the streets are filled with people not overrun with cars I know there's a lot of latent demand for this kind of place I know it from talking to people on the streets I know it because all the real estate listings talk up the
walkability of other Places like this are always more expensive because there's never enough demand or never enough supply to meet the demand It's an issue in every election and sometimes people other than me will come here to talk about it I know it because
the master plan devotes a considerable amount of ink to it and the council sometimes even passes a resolution Now let's answer the question of why I keep talking even when I know no one is listening Back in the fall around the beginning of the school year I was
talking to one of the crossing guards trying to convince her to attend a council meeting to let her grievances be known She asked me when I go "Do they listen to me?" I said "No." She said "If they don't listen to you why would they
listen to me?" I said "I have to try." Thank you Anybody else from the public wishing to speak hello Excuse me Hello Uh David Labuno 423 Styver Avenue Uh just a question I see that the budget is being introduced tonight Are we going to receive a
presentation on that at some point in time next meeting Okay Which is okay Thank you very much So then we'll get all the preliminaries on there Okay Very well Uh that's the uh
only question that I actually had this evening Thank you very much Thank you And hard copies are available in the clerk's office Peter 86 Hobart only got one question about the bills on page 35
Cuban brothers One piece of sheetrock was $85 Now I did this for a living That's awful expensive for one piece of sheetrock I review the bills and this just popped out at me Thank you Thank you Pete Anybody else from the public
wishing to speak anthony Prair 134 Belelfford Avenue I just want to thank you guys for coming together making this a possibility Appreciate everybody Thank you Anybody else from the public
wilson you know Frank Wilson 171 Montro Brother Rutherford These are just quick ones Um the ordinance that got passed for the tattoo parlor I'm sure it's 18 and over Correct I I didn't see it on the all the specs that were on there I'm
sure it's 18 and older because I didn't see it on the question I had and the um the uh uh we're going to get the meeting in next meeting will be for the um for the budget Correct So the next meeting we'll have the formal
presentation for the next meeting So that's that's basically it That's all I had Thank you Thank you Anybody else from the public wishing to speak seeing none I'm going to close it to the public and now open up for any council comments I'll let the BR administrator speak
first Thank you mayor Just so it's clear at the next meeting at the 28th I will do a presentation on the 25 budget And then the first meeting in May I think it's May 12th will be the formal public hearing where the public has an opportunity to speak to the budget and
the the council will then have an opportunity to vote on that budget Thank you Anybody else from the council councilwoman thank you Mayor Um Mr Schneider I I just wanted to address I I I wanted to at
least acknowledge I I know you come here and speak to this issue Is he there i'm sorry I didn't see you behind Gordon and because it's hard for me to even see over the day but that's that's a mess issue Um I you know you and I have worked together on some other things and I and I'd like to think I listen and I'd
like to think we listen I think that you're expressing frustration that is understandable because I know that you want to see progress happen at a certain pace and that's you're right as a as a as a resident Um I think what would be
helpful to me is um safer streets is something I think we all want I think you know you and I spoke about a very different issue that there was too much lighting in some areas of the burrow and we got a lighting ordinance and that only got partially the way there and I recognize
um it wasn't to the full degree you wanted but I do think saying that you come here and no one listens um for me in particular that's like hard to hard to digest because I do think we listen and don't always get to the point that residents think we should be and that
both things can be true we can both be listening and not able to get to the point that residents think we should be at I know that Councilman Guzman has worked a lot with the chief on these traffic issues and I don't know if you wish to speak more to it today but um
but at the end of the day I just it's it's helpful for residents to know that I feel very strongly not enough residents come to these meetings And so I don't want you I want you to at least understand from my perspective I feel badly that you think that you come here and no one listens because I do think
that um we we try to get as far as we can and at least do listen even if the result isn't um isn't what we want So I I or what residents want and I appreciate you coming here Um Mr Chair I just wanted to point out I I sort of love that you look at our bills with
such critical eyes that you noticed an $85 piece of sheetrock is is too much I think your investment you always come to our meetings and always have something to add So I just wanted to at least um acknowledge that that you do that because I think it's it's really important and even though we see each
other every morning when I'm waving to you as you to being a crossing guard I I appreciate that you show up here as well That's it Counselor thank you sir Um Mr Sure Pete you and I are close I just looked up on Lowe's real fast There is um two
different brands of regular quiet panel drywall that start at $83 a sheet and go as high as $102 a sheet Um so I'd be more than happy to find out what that project was and why that particular brand or model had to be selected or maybe the bureau administrator knows Um
because I like you understand it should be around the range of $16 to $23 But again it's available so must have been a purpose for it Um and then Mr Wilson uh there is a whole other tier of regulations by the state that tattoo studios have to operate and abide by
just to keep their license Um so ours defers upwards up the chain as they would say to all of those uh things which were included in my initial presentation back in December Um but happy to share those with you off the the meeting times Thank you for always checking in
Thank you for a minute Ad ministry like to say a couple words regarding this Pete So I want to address the $85 piece of sheetrock Uh the way this bill's list is compiled uh and the way it's entered in
our system they look at the invoice and they enter item one could be three paint cans but it'll say item one paint cans and it'll say item two sheetrock Now it could be 12 pieces of sheetrock for $85 So it's it doesn't talk about the qu
this list doesn't tell you the quantity It just tells you the item number within the invoice when it was entered into our system So I assure you it was an $85 piece of sheetrock There's multiple pieces of sheetrock on that invoice Just when the the clerk entered it into the financial system just put sheetrock and
it was item number two on that invoice Anybody else from the council sorry Councilman Thank you Mayor Um I just want to say to Mr Schneider that was a very like literary poetic presentation and it was compelling I was
listening for for the ending Um I agree with you that this I I moved back home to my hometown a few years ago because it what I believe it's very walkable and I walk all around So um I share that desire to make it even more walkable if
possible So I don't know if you have told us before if you have specific recommendations for that that we have heard I would love to hear it again um because I think that's something that you know we do have it's a wonderful quality that Rutherford has and I want
to preserve it and encourage it and increase it if we can So thank you for coming and your passion for the issues in our town Thank you Anybody else seeing none council president um uh Mr Schneider uh I don't I don't
know if you could see him over Gordon's head No I can see I I got a good line of sight Uh Mr Schneider um we I I want you to know I do hear you I just want to put it on the record you are heard Um and I appreciate your comments So thank you for sharing them Um for my colleagues
that are all in the room or or my fellow residents that are looking forward to the budget presentation thank you for your interest Not so many people get excited about budgets I thought I was one of the very few people and I'm I'm always welcoming to have company So I'm thrilled you're here and I look forward
to the spirited discussions all of which I've had with many of you and I look forward to more Um and to the Pereira family I am happy that you are here today and and um I trust that we are we are going in a good direction So I am glad that you're here to be here um and
sharing that with us So thank you Mayor Thank you Anybody else seeing none move on uh resolutions These are separate for consent Uh staff Thank you mayor First is
resolution number 105 authorizing the submission of the 2025 Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund Municipal Park improvement grant application motion I have a motion by the council president May I have a second second Second by council del Any questions or comments seeing I have a roll call Council
President McGowan Yes Counciloman Del Yes Counciloman Cotron Yes Councilman Kley Yes Councilman Erica Yes Cuz yes Thank you Next is resolution number 106 authorizing the execution of a lease with New Jersey Transit for the area of the Rutherford train station known as
block 266 lot one Motion I have a motion by the council president May I have a second second Second by council Quatron Any questions or comments i would just like to add that part of this space is planned to be used by the
um um Dan Meredith and the chamber um finally restore the u that small area at um which was basically like a small retunda where they'll be able to be there when the train comes and
goes and notify residents of what the future of things that are happening within the town So I'd like to thank the bur administrator for working hard on that one in short order Council President McGowan yes Creo yes Councilman Kley yes Councilman Erica
yes Cuz yes Next is resolution number 107 authorizing the execution of a shared service agreement with the county of Bergen for the provision of high-speed fiber optic internet service Motion I have a motion by the council president May I have a second second Second by councilman Guzman Any
questions or comments seeing none May have a roll call Council president McGowan Yes Councilwoman Deler Con Abstain Council Quron Yes Councilman
Kley Yes Councilman Erico Yes Cuz yes Thank you Next is resolution number 111 introducing the calendar year 2025 municipal budget Motion Motion by council president May I have a second
second Second by council del Any question yeah Thank you mayor Um tonight we are introducing the 2025 municipal budget This has been an extremely difficult budget to put together considering the rate of
inflation the last 12 months has been over 2.39% Four of the five largest line items in this budget are up over 2.48% Employee group insurance is up 12%
Utilities are up approximately 10% Sewer service charge is up approximately 9% In addition to these three significant line item budgets excuse me line item budget significant line budget items
when considering salaries and wages we're talking about increases of 2.8% With these factors and also considering we are still restricted by the 2% property tax levy cap we believe we have developed a fair and reasonable budget
to maintain the same level of services to our residents and still be fiscally prudent While no one's happy for a tax increase we have managed to minimize as much as possible by limiting it to
1.96% for municipal purposes This does not include the school or county which we have no control over We still have work to do for the next year and the future years But I am satisfied we have done as much as we can for 2025 And
having said that I want to thank my council colleague Matt Kley um who is second as the finance liaison I also want to thank and and not that this hasn't been done in years past but there was an extraordinary commitment of every
council member who was up here who worked in tandem with each other cooperatively who listened to each other There was a great deal of negotiation Um and I also would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge our CFO and our burough
administrator Um just to be very clear as the mayor knows because he's certainly done enough of these budgets over the years um as finance liaison I sit with both the CFO and bur administrator meet with every um uh
director of every one of our areas In addition to that we talked to all of the council members and there is a great deal of negotiation about what people wish for what is realistic and what is strategic for the burrow moving
forward This might be the first time in 11 years for me that there was a lot of conversation saying yes we want that but we can't do that now And it was very important that what projects were selected to move forward were in the
best interest of the residents to reach the most number of residents and most importantly to sustain the services that our residents have the right to ac um expect of us And so uh Bob and Gordon
thank you Uh mayor thank you for taking the time to be a good steward of this process and to all of my colleagues up here and especially our department heads Outstanding work by our department heads I would love for the answer to be
zero but I am incredibly proud that we are going to be able to move this forward um after a lot of work Um so thank you for allowing me to share those words and to acknowledge the people who deserve to be acknowledged this evening Thank you Mayor Thank you Council
President We're going to move on to the consent agenda Oh I'm sorry Got a motion on that Sorry Council President McGowan Yes Council Del Con Yes Council Corone Yes Councilman Copley Yes Councilman Eric
Yes Council Guzman Yes Thank you Consent agenda Thank you Mayor All items authorized to be consent by the council will be enacted by one motion These items are routine in nature I have a motion by the council president May I have a second second Second by councilman Guzman Any questions or
comments by the council seeing none roll call Council president McGowan Yes Council de Yes Council Quatron Councilman Kley Yes Council Ero Yes Councilman Gman Yes Thank you Excuse me mayor Uh my apologies but I'm just
ask whatever you need to do We're all here for you Thank you so much All right we're going to move on to new business Amending the council bylaws pertaining to conduh conducting meetings Bob you want to start that
oh I'm sorry John Thank you mayor Um so I was inspired to take a look at this after uh my colleagues particularly Councilwoman Quatron and our council president who uh just left the meeting Uh when we amended our procedure for passing ordinances um a few months back
uh I looked at our existing bylaws which are part of our uh bureau laws how we govern ourselves and I found that we're not um following a lot of things that are written in these laws Uh I think these are messages of you know years or decades past Um I don't want to go into
great detail about what they say and how we're not following them but suffice to say that they uh are very different than the procedures that we follow uh as a uh as a board here So uh my thought is to amend them I've spoken to our bureau attorney and professionals about this uh to amend them to reflect how we actually
conduct our meetings Um I don't think any of the changes that we would um propose are objectionable or controversial They just uh would be changed to reflect how we actually conduct business U happy to have a discussion about that but that is the uh the gist of what I'd like to do Does
anybody have any questions for the councilman council I I just wanted to point out uh Councilman Ero that there's nothing that was necessarily unlawful about the way we were doing it It's just the order of things were different There's nothing
substantively that we were missing from the meetings uh you know I I'll I'll defer to our okay attorney about the lawfulness of it But I you know my my reading of it to to be frank is that before each meeting we would have to formally say that we're deviating from the bylaws and we don't
do that So whether that's unlawful or not I Fair enough Fair enough Lawyer to lawyer that was an unfair question That was my point It should merit changing Anybody else
um Ray thank you Mayor Um thank you Councilman for uh bringing this uh on to discussion this night tonight Um I'd love to learn definitely learn more about what you're seeing and uh as needing correction and uh the course of
action to correct Um so if you need any help I'm here to help I would love to uh sit down and go through this with you Thank you I guess um if everybody's okay with it the uh John can work with the attorneys to uh move forward and come up with a
better plan that we could uh reconvene on this as a council and make a decision Is that acceptable to you yep Thank you mayor Yep All right We're going to move on now [Music]
to council members reports Council President's left already Councilwoman Del Recon Thank you Mayor Um I just wanted to remind everyone uh to try to attend Treefest on uh Saturday the 26th I believe it is Um I know the green team
and the civil rights commission for whom I'm leaison uh will both be there I know it's at the tail end of spring break but hopefully folks will have the opportunity um to come out and visit uh the you know it is the burrow of trees so Treefest is always a big ticket uh
here in Rutherford And I think as to my lesson on assignments that's all I have today Mayor thank you Thank you Councilwoman Councilwoman Quatron I have nothing tonight Thanks Mayor Thank you Councilwoman Councilman Kley Thank you sir Uh just want to echo my colleague Councilwoman Delray Con's sentiments
about uh Rutherford Treefest It is 1 PM uh indeed on April 26th Uh again another uh massive amount of gratitude to chairman Frank Sasso and the rest of the tree commission who spearheaded this effort and put it together Uh Frank kudos to you on your very first year
putting this uh monumental event together So I applaud you and I thank you for your service to this municipality Thank you Councilman Ero Thank you Mayor Um a few weeks back I went to the uh I wrote it down so I don't get this wrong the New Jersey
State Planning Commission cross- acceptance public meeting which is uh a process that the state is doing throughout uh uh the state and each county uh with regards to a new redevelopment plan that the state is passing This is the first time the state is passing uh a redevelopment plan in I
believe 20 plus years Uh we have a lot of residents that come out and are concerned about development and redevelopment And although this redevelopment plan is at the state level and so it doesn't impact our zoning directly uh it is I think an important document for those of us that are concerned about development and
redevelopment It touches on issues um not directly but could implicate issues like affordable housing um accessory dwelling dwelling units things like that So to the extent anyone's interested I would uh Google that I don't have a direct link to uh to find it but there's a lot of information online about that new redevelopment plan and I think it's
important for concerned residents to take a look at Uh beyond that I want to wish everyone a happy Passover happy Easter and a reminder to file your taxes by tomorrow or an extension It's tax day Thank you Thank you Councilman Uh if you'd like to uh expand upon
something down the road and maybe do a bit of a town hall something you want to put out through um our website please uh feel free Uh let's see who's uh Councilman Guzman
Thank you Mayor Um not much to report tonight but I do uh want to follow up on announcement and I am not in the ticket sales business but I do believe in the Ruther in the uh Rutherford Library Foundation And just as a reminder that gala is coming up on May 3rd and if you
haven't uh purchased your tickets please do so This money goes to to great purposes donate of donations to our Rutherford public library uh which we all love and uh we want to be able to keep uh uh make sure that they have uh the needs and some extra funding that
they would uh need for any of uh any new programs or any new initiatives they may put put forth But they do a lot of good So if you haven't gotten your tickets please do so again It's May 3rd Thank you Thank you Councilman All right Uh I have nothing
to report Um the uh actually the um the Easter uh egg hunt was a a huge success this weekend I was down there The volunteers Jenny Coleman I just want
to thank her in particular Her work was incredible Um she had a wellorganized with our recreation department The volunteers did a great job There was a a very very large turnout So I really want to give a shout out to the the um recreation department and Jenny Coleman
Uh my that's all I have to report on that Um appointments Karen Zapanovich Zabanovich Zapanovich uh account clerk step 4 effective May 1st 2025 in accordance with the rules and regulations of the New Jersey Civil
Service Commission that ask for council consent A motion motion Motion by Councilman Kley May I have a second second Second by Councilwoman Cotron Any questions or comments seeing none roll call Counciloman Delone Yes Counciloman
Cotron Yes Councilman Kley Yes Councel Yes Councilman Guzman Yes Uh I'd like to appoint Nicole Nazi to the rent board I'd ask for council consent Anybody motion Motion by Councilman Guzman
Have a second Second Second by councilwoman del Any questions or comments seeing none I may have a roll call Counciloman Deler Con Yes Counciloman Quro Yes Councilman Kley Yes Councilman Eric Yes Cuz yes
And finally Connor Fox code enforcement officer effective April 15 2025 in accordance with the rules and regulations of civil service I'd ask for council consent Motion Motion by Councilman uh Kley May I have a second second Second by Councilman Guzman Any
questions or comments seeing none ever roll call Council Del Con Abstain Council Quadron Yes Councilman Kley Yes Councilman Erico Yes Councilman Guzman Yes Thank you I'd ask for a motion to adjourn Motion Motion by Councilman
Guzman All in favor i I All right Everybody have a great night