good evening everyone i'm going to call the meeting to order would everyone please stand for a short prayer and a salute to our flag almighty God grant us the wisdom to make those decisions that are in the best interest of all our residents may the heavenly father of
father of us all bless those who have given the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation and may he watch over and protect our service men and women now guarding the gates of freedom salute to the flag i pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all jessica statement of publication take notice that this regular agenda meeting of the mayor and burough council being
held on this 24th day of March 2025 has been posted and advertised in accordance with the open public meetings act chapter 231 public law 1975 roll call council persons Bala here police here novak here roberts here sarski here
zowski here uh Don if you would please approval of prior minutes i move the following minutes of the mayor and council be approved on roll call vote subject to correction if necessary the March 10th 2025 regular agenda and executive
sessions second roll call council persons Roberts yes fala helissi yes novak yes sinarski yes zowski yes okay with that we have a very special guest here tonight he is a New
Jersey state wrestling champ and uh it's not the president but it is the mayor so we're going to have a family member come up to take pictures and then as I said to the family members feel free to move around
matt come up to the podium thanks Are you guys coming out said no i thought he was I What I'm going to do Matt just so you know we're all
incredibly p proud of you we really are and your sister too but I'm going to ask uh our council president Donna Roberts who's in charge of all recreation to read your proh proclamation all right you okay with
that yes okay your I'm going to do the same thing when your sister comes up thank you mayor thank you Matthew and we are so very proud of you this is a certificate of recognition presented by the mayor and burough council to Matthew
Brown presented today the Burough Council extends their warmest congratulations to Matthew Brown for his historic achievement as becoming the first New Jersey State Youth Wrestling Champion from Seville matthew is an eighth grade student at the Seville
Middle School who has demonstrated exceptional skill determination and sportsmanship in the sport of wrestling his commitment discipline resilience serves as an inspiration to fellow students athletes and
residents of Seville he competed in the 175B weight class emerging victorious and earning the title of New Jersey State Youth Wrestling Champion bringing great honor and recognition to our
community congratulations once again on this remarkable accomplishment signed by the mayor and council congratulations congratulations super proud take your next level thank you congratulations thank you
you got you got to walk the gauntlet congratulations great job eighth grade how great this guy is matt come on back now remember I know come on up you know we get to embarrass you more
wave to wave to your mother on television hi Mom hey Dad oh hi Dad okay so can you tell us who your coaches are and what it was like of course face the camera so that your mother will have this forever and
ever all right can Can I go like from the story like You do it the way you want to do it it's your night yeah so Wow this is a big achievement thank you for having me again um so for the
state tournament I I train at Triumph in Ocean County and I have a couple coaches there Coach Nick Roy Coach Kyle Kiss and Coach Kenny Theold they really trained me like really hard and then I'll say in
February I had this coach uh Coach Anthony Puffi he was with me like for I would say one or two years and in the last month he he's really been training me hard he supported me the whole time and like he's always like behind my back
and uh yeah and um yeah so coach Anthony Puffi he chained me the most and he coached me um during the states actually so it was him and my coach Coach Kyle Kiss they
both trained me i did private lessons i've been working very hard even in school it's been really tough also like a lot of um like in the past year I went through um like parents divorcing and stuff and
that it's really been hard for me so I really had to push through it and like my dad my mom my aunt uh Diaadez Dioj my grandma mama I call her and a couple of my friends uh Gavin Rosario especially
he's like a brother to me they've really supported me and um God this is emotional and like they've really pushed through me you know and like every single night almost I'll cry it it's really been tough and the wrestling part
it's been like it it was okay for me and in school right I I would always like the teachers they would support me too but sometimes I feel like I would be in the wrong like I would always like I don't know it was just very tough
emotionally but yeah and then my coach coach Anthony Pufumi like like I said before he he really trained me through it all but and also mentally mentally like I go to a therapist coach I mean not coach Dr brett Hman like he he
really on the mental side he really helped me through it and also I want to say thank you to my dad he um like he really paid for like the triumph he like oh my god he uh what else like triumph
he's been keeping my diet good i I really eat healthy and like he pushed me physically uh mentally and like he's really like my my hero honestly and I I love him so much i
Dad in front of the podium come on Dad come on come on wave wave wave to your mom and dad wave to the camera where's mom come on so everybody with a camera go in the
center aisle you get a better picture and face that way and face that way yes all right beautiful Matthew you're very so proud of you and we expect to continue reading great things about you
and your turn is next month make sure mom calls this is Nicole and this is Jessica and make sure mom calls so we'll set something up okay thank you very much okay we're proud of you man job well done good job Mom thank
you very much thank you congratulations Tom george yeah matthew I want to take a picture of you and dad oh you want to take a picture of Can my son take a picture with you chill come here you want to be in the picture sweetheart
how about we do one no we're good step out and get a wider ice there you go all right good all right thank you you too very proud of you
thank you [Music] thank you thank you thank you everyone okay okay counselor I'll read it you're good whereas section 8 of the open public
meetings act chapter 231 public law 1975 permits the exclusion of the public from a meeting in certain circumstances and whereas this public body is of the opinion that such circumstances pre presently exist now therefore it be resolved by the mayor and burough council of the burrow of seable county of middle sex state of New Jersey as follows the public portion of this meeting is hereby adjourned in order
that the governing body may meet in close private session for approximately 5 to 10 minutes to discuss the following matters attorney client privilege litigation affordable housing following the conclusion of said closed session the governing body shall reconvene the open portion of this public meeting to consider any other matters which may be properly brought before it at this time
the nature and content of the discussion which occurs in close session shall be made public at such time as the need for non-disclosure no longer exists this resolution shall take effect immediately there a motion make a motion that we go into close a second second roll call
council person Roberts yes bala yes kesi yes novak yes sarski yes zabowski it should be five or 10 minutes take a motion to go into open make a motion to reconvene second roll call
council persons Roberts yes vala yes kesi yes novak yes sinarski yes zabrowski yes okay go ahead go ahead Jessica public hearing on ordinance number 10-25 Burrow of Seville County and
Middle Sex ordinance establishing regulations for the planting of bamboo throughout the burrow this time I'll uh I'll open uh the public portion for questions or comments on this ordinance other questions or comments there being
no questions or Oh come up jim thank you robinson Par in Parland i had a conversation with my friend Mike on uh St patrick's Day and he said "You're opposed to my ordinance." I'm not opposed to the ordinance not at all i just thought there should have been more discussion about it and I was curious to
know how the fines were determined what did anybody know how the fines how the fines were determined how did you pick that will be determined by the court there's there's a maximum fine in the ordinance well how is the maximum that's
in the ordinance and is it a what what is it is it $1,200 yes and is it $1,200 per day can't do Well yes if there's a if there if the zoning officer issues a summon for each individual day yes but there's been case law that says you can't just
issue a Okay so all I'm asking knows the answer how did you come up with that what you and one of my concerns is this we had a matter thrown out of court a very serious matter thrown out of court not too long ago one that impacted
health and safety in the town because the judge said the fees were ownorous and I'm just wondering if a judge might not say that a fee of $1,200 a day and while I support this ordinance
I know they're invasive i understand that but I'm just wondering and there's been no discussion on this so that's why I bring it up now do you think a judge might say a fee of $1,200 a day for having a bamboo
plant is ownorous and if you do think that do you think we ought to change that that's all right could happen could happen you know judges are doing all kinds of things in the last two months Jim so this this could just be one more
thing oh thank thank you for that okay are there any other questions or comments on this ordinance being no other questions or comments I'll entertain a motion councilman Zabrowski move the public hearing be the ordinance adopted on second and final reading and
advertised according to second roll call council person Zabrowski yes ala yes fissy yes novak i'm I'm going to abstain only because I I I didn't really know anything about this and then I found out that most of the discussion happened
last year and for some reason it got misplaced and it was never put back on the agenda till now i think the $1,200 might be a little too high i'd like to know what other towns are doing with the fees i'm not against the ordinance in of itself that's why I'm going to abstain
right now roberts yes yes public hearing on ordinance number 11-25 Burrow of Seville County and Middle Sex Ordinance Updating the Bureau's Regulations for Burrow sponsored athletic organizations this time I'm going to open the public
portion for questions or comments on this ordinance are there any questions or comments being no questions or comments I'll entertain a motion council President I move the public hearing be closed the ordinance adopted on second and final reading and advertised according to law
is there a second second roll call council persons Roberts yes ala yes khesi yes go back oh I'm sorry no yes yes or abstain yes okay sorry that's
okay sarski yes zabrowski yes okay at this time I'm going to make the following appointment uh Judy Lurman I'm going to change her she's an alternate on the planning board i'm going to change her to class four alternate to class correct
all right since it's a mayoral appointment it doesn't require any action on behalf of of the governing body new business introduction of ordinance number 12-25 and ordinance supplementing and amending ordinance 2-24 fixing the salaries of certain
burough officials officers and employees for the years 2025 to 2027 councilman Balka move the ordinance be approved at first reading advertised according to the law and a public hearing be held on 414 2025 second council person Dala yes
his yes Roberts yes sarski yes zabrski yes introduction of ordinance number 13-25 Burrow of Seville County and Middle Sex ordinance authorizing the Burrow of Seville's sale of the real property
identified as block 371 lot 2.03 03 to the adjacent property owner councilman Bala move the ordinance be approved on first reading advertised according to law on a public hearing be held on 414 2025 second roll call council persons
Bala yes kesi yes novak yes roberts yes sarski yes zabrowski yes at this time I'm going to open the public portion for questions or comments on the consent agenda resolutions other
questions or comments jim thank you mayor Jim Robinson Parlin first I'd like to say I'm glad the power is on here also mayor I'm glad you appointed Judy Lurman she's an excellent alternate she'll be a great planning board member good move on your part on resolution 2588 which talks about a
budget for the township of Woff I assume that's another typo or another cut and paste error um the way you're looking at one another I might be the only one that caught that was corrected it was corrected okay well stop my clock on on on
correcting your errors please okay i want to also talk about 202587 increasing affordable housing numbers you know 50 years ago this week the Mount Laurel decision was handed down and it likes it looks like we still haven't figured that out you could have
challenged the numbers DCA gave you in October instead in January with no public discussion you agreed to a present obligation of 194 units and a prospective need obligation of 210 that's a total of 404 affordable units
about 160 towns did challenge the DC's allocation and 85% had their numbers lowered we didn't instead tonight with little public explanation you're increasing our prospective need obligation by 30 to 240 units that's a
total of 434 present and future units you went into executive session for exactly four minutes to discuss that and I'd like to know more about this what you aren't telling the people is the way the mayor has addressed affordable housing has been to build six market
rate units for every one affordable unit required so we're really talking about a potential of 1,500 units on top of the 2,000 being built at Riverton so that's a when you include uh Camelot and what's
by Castaverie that's about 4,000 potential new apartments now I'm for affordable housing but what you're doing provides very few affordable units it just helps rich developers get richer it helps certain friends and contributors
get approvals without making them replace the thousands of trees they take down have you seen what happened what's happening in Melrose right now god it's it's terrible now I know a little bit about this i was the planning board chairman during the McCormack administration that was the last time we
were in compliance we were never sued and in fact we had a surplus of units that carried over to the next round but in the last 25 years until we were sued we didn't allow any affordable units so we were sued and now we're paying the price but people should know this our
affordable numbers are based on the buildable land we have had the burrow preserved the 40 acres behind Kennedy Park and we have enough money in our open space fund to do that had we preserved that none of that would have gone into the calculations for our affordable obligation our numbers would
probably be lower in 2023 mayors McCormack and Kilpatrick in a bipartisan fashion suggested that 40 acres be preserved using open space funds the council agreed and voted to move ahead and even obtained appraisals but Mayor
O'Brien who never preserved even one acre of land had other ideas and stopped the acquisition had the mayor not done this we would have preserved that property and our affordable obligation might well have been less than it is now in a burough form of government remember
this it's the council that council not the mayor who's in charge but you've surrendered your authority to him and the council needs to do its duty remember this in 2023 the mayor got
5,270 votes last year Mary Novak got 9,944 votes 4,700 more votes stash you were right behind her you got almost as many votes as Mary Donna and Dan you got 6,000
votes all All of you got more than the mayor legally you're in charge you can vote to acquire this land and you should and it will impact our affordable housing quota the other thing you haven't talked about is how warehouses
impact affordable housing you haven't told the public how low wage commercial development raises our affordable requirement and that after all was the basis of Mount Laurel so you are the folks driving our affordable numbers
higher you had a close session nothing has been discussed with the public we don't know what's going on i got an email from somebody today saying "Had I not posted about this on Facebook they wouldn't have known anything about this." You are the You all got elected
most of you as the transparency team this is pretty important we should know about it where's the planner the planner should be here mayor we had an excellent affordable housing planner that you got rid of for political reasons the planner should be here to talk about the
rationale for doing what we're doing i'm not saying it's wrong it might be right we don't know jim thank you thank you mayor appreciate your Always a pleasure yeah are there any other questions comments okay that being said entertain a motion
i move the consent agenda items the public hearing be closed the ordinance sorry I'm getting myself confused i move the um public hearing be closed and the consent agenda resolutions be approved on roll call vote there uh roll call
second i'll second roll call council persons Roberts yes bala yep yes kesi yes novak i'm going to be voting no um I really I think this is this doesn't
really give any information to the residents of the town i think perhaps maybe if we had somebody come in What are you voting now on i'm sorry on 87 okay 2587 okay um I spent the bill uh
the thank god the um the planner spent about an hour and a half on the phone with me on Friday um because most of this was discussed last year when I wasn't on the council and he was explaining to me you know how these
numbers come about and how we can change them one way or the other and it's based on every bit of land in this town that does not have a building of some sort on it and the the
uh even if it's not zoned residential we might wind up having to reszone this like we did the last time the last time we were trying to make up for 20 years of no affordable housing but we could wind up having to do the same thing now when we've been following all the rules
and regulations and this people read let's say everybody sat down and read the uh agenda and said "Oh there isn't anything important on there." I think maybe if it said more here or if we had a presentation prior with the planner explaining this it would have been a
better situation and you know also um I asked several times because I had heard that Riverton was no I wanted to know how Riverton's reductions in their homes was going to affect this because we would not have even met our obligation for 2025 and I was told repeatedly that
they had not dropped their numbers and yet there's an article in the paper that specifically says that they're no longer building 2,000 units they are only building 1,300 units so how that's going to affect we're going to have to make those
numbers up too and nobody really knows any of this so I'm voting no yes on and yes on everything else tinarski yes zowski yes but I do want to comment on 202587 and normally I I kind
of reserve myself on this i'm sorry I don't think my my mic is on i do want to comment on this because there was a lot of discussion in particular inside there too mary I guess kind of changed her tune afterwards but that's okay uh the point being is we did challenge those
numbers uh we didn't sit back on our on our high knees and just wait we did challenge those numbers and we did it for a particular reason not because the calculations were wrong because I agree because we we challenged the developable properties within town on particular on
acreages and we were able to do this based on a a very valid argument that certain areas simply weren't developable whether they were encumbered by um environmental issues whether they were in a flood zone or for some other particular
reason we didn't just sit and take our stand on this we spent time and considerable time on this the reason why it couldn't be brought forward before this is because it had to be confidential because we went through a process of mediation mediation is confidential so this is the first
opportunity to be able to raise this information and provide it we went from a number of 270 down to 240 would we have liked to have gone lower absolutely and our argument was for lower but I'll be honest with you there are a number of towns that are challenging at this point and they're mediating rather than
challenging because that's the better way to go i don't know exactly how those towns will do but I do say that we did a very fair job and I applaud our business administrator i applaud our our municipal attorney as well as our
burough planner for giving that effort that they did because it did reduce the numbers no one wants to be able to have a large numbers for affordable housing but we're working very hard to be creative in the way in which we can do it and I know that Mr robinson said in the fa in the past that you had certain
numbers and certain ways of doing it but round four allows us to be creative and our township is working that way with our professionals to be creative to make those numbers as low and make make the way in which we do this as best we can for our town i I'm tired of the
grandstanding but that's not appropriate the fact of the matter is our town has worked very hard in order to get those those numbers down for our community i vote yes on all uh on all items i need a motion to accept the correspondence that's listed i make a
motion roll call absolutely council persons Roberts yes bala yes kesi yes novak yes sarski yes zabowski okay uh council reports dan are you up
to it okay i just We hope to have a budget to increase at the next meeting and uh progress okay uh planning and zoning councilman Sabrowski thank you Mayor uh just a couple items first on a personal note I want to congratulate um now Chief Patty
Kcki of the South Amboy Police Department um as being appointed as their first actually is the first female chief in uh Middle Sex County but also being the first female chief in South Amway as well she's going to do a heck of a job over there um for planning
board and zoning I just want to indicate that there are two meetings coming up for the planning board that I think are of important one is the April 2nd meeting which is the subdivision hearing for the Journey Mill Road urban renewal project um and secondly on the 14th I'm
sorry the 16th of April that is a the next scheduled meeting for the mosque that meeting will be scheduled at the adult act active adult center at 7 p.m mayor that's my report thank you public safety Councilman Kesy good evening everyone i'd like to begin with an
update from the police department so on Tuesday March 11th at 8:56 in the morning the Sarville Police Department received an urgent call regarding a fire at the Gallery Motel upon arrival
officers encountered thick smoke um emanating from one of the rooms and despite encountering uh deliberate obstruction at the door our officers heroically forced entry and
discovered a female victim trapped in the bathroom thanks to their swift and courageous actions the victim was rescued without life-threatening injuries the Saraveville Fire Department and JFK
EMS promptly arrived at uh to extinguish the fire and provide critical care to the victim who was sub subsequently transported to St barnabas Hospital for further treatment so during the rescue
one of our officers sustained injuries and was taken to Robert Wood Johnson's University Hospital we are re uh relieved to report that the officer has been discharged and is now recovering so following a detailed investigation by
Sarahville detectives the female involved in the incident has been charged with arson assault criminal mischief obstruction and causing widespread injury and damage she's now in the custody of the Middle Sex County
Adult Correction Center this event serves as a powerful reminder of the risks faced by our first response responders daily we encourage all community members to remain vigilant promptly report any
suspicious activities and report and support the brave men and women dedicated to ensuring our safety then on March 17th which was a Monday Sarville Police in partnership with the
Middle Sex County Special Operations Response Team executed a search warrant in Saraveville leading to the apprehension of two individuals connected to a series of burglaries defendant number one who is Sammit
Matthews 19 years old of Saraveville faces multiple charges including two counts of burglary two counts of theft one count of possession of a handgun two counts possession of a prohibited
weapons involving ammunition and handcuffs one count of certain persons not to possess a firearm and then there's even further charges that are expected as the investigation continues
so the second defendant Keshan Zephrine 21 years old also of Saraveville has been charged with one count of rece receiving stolen property during the search of uh
Matthews residents law enforcement neighborhoods lastly our police department reminds residents that applications for the New Jersey Civil Service Commission's Law Enforcement Entry Exam which is LEA for short are
open until March 31st of this year so interested candidates are encouraged to apply uh online via the Civil Service Commission website so for more details
and the application link please visit the Saraveville Police Department social media platforms so the next up update on the public safety is from our fire department uh Chief Gavvern will be submitting another commendation for two
firefighters who were involved in the rescue of the woman that I just previously mentioned from the room at that Gallery Motel on Tuesday March 11th their names are Bruce Miller and Jacob Rivera i'm hoping to present them at our
next council meeting if available for my report on the uh office of emergency management on March 17th uh office of emergency management along with Saraveville police responded to the
Bordontown Avenue in the area of William Street to report a train derailment on their arrival it was discovered that six rail cars had derailed and damaged the tracks at that crossing fortunately the rail cars were
empty and no one was injured oem coordinated with Saraveville police East Brunswick Police as well as Conrail and the Norfolk Southern Railway Police this is incident was cleared up later that
night then on March 20th OEM attended a tabletop drill at the high school for evacuation and reunification with the school administrator uh administration and their
security so I recently attended a meeting at the office of the aging and we had guest speakers from the mayor's uh chiefs of staff Ken Kelly and Deacon Andy they introduced themselves and spoke about the different things uh they
can offer to our community of aging they have express their community involvement and availability to the public in the days ahead and they will um they will do brief presentations to the various
existing senior clubs at their lunchons and for the public who has interest there are three major clubs to join at our senior center which uh are the Tuesday club the Thursday club and a Saint stands club so to all those
registered uh interested in anything to the senior center has to offer please reach out to 732-3907058 finally I'd like to mention that the Saraveville Emergency Squad will be doing a blood drive on Tuesday April 1st
at their uh at their garage from 1:00 p.m to 700 p.m that's at 776 Washington Road in Parin so to make an appointment and be a hero the website is www.nybc.orgdrive
org/drive and that sponsorship code is 13870 and that's all I have this evening mayor thank you thank you Councilman Public Works councilwoman Novak yes um we just received this tonight
when I was coming in that uh on his way out the door the governor is officially do adopting California clean air standards which will impact our vehicle purchasing um even though New York Delaware and Connecticut and Pennsylvania have not New Jersey is
going to do this so we're going to have start having um electric uh garbage trucks and electric uh Mary I can't hear you i'm sorry got my mic on um we're going to start having to have uh
primarily vehicles over 8,500 pounds and uh I mean can you imagine having garbage trucks we'll probably have to double the fleet so one truck is being charged we don't even have the infrastructure to do this i I just received this tonight i'm
I don't care whether the governor is a Democrat or Republican that's that's just stupid you know we can't even our windmills don't work right without killing every whale in the state uh other than that uh I've had a lot of um residents um
email me um about the range everybody knows we've had a range there for at least 50 years that I know of but we're hearing it a lot more and you say "Okay well we're using it more often." No this this is really due to the trees being
taken down the trees did they they people they took the trees down they followed all our rules they gave us money for all of these trees I I've talked to the shade tree uh commissioner um the head of the and we really would like to see trees and shrubs planted
using treeback money because they gave us all that money I don't and I don't even know exactly how to do it we probably have to get the engineer involved but we really need to do this something people that a lot smarter than me will know what to plant around that
range to stop this because it you know it is it I if I can hear it at my house it really needs to be done it's nobody's fault really it's just trees naturally inhibit all of this transfer like today it's even more loud
when it's a cloudy day and it's rainy apparently that keeps the noise down as opposed to dissipating out so I'd like however that has to be handled i'm sure Glenn you'll work on that actually I've been in contact with the police chief and we had a meeting with a acoustic
expert who's going to come out and give us some mitigation ideas and what we can employ out at the range and it you know again it shouldn't really come out of our we it can come out of tree bank because they put they put what over a million dollars into the tree bank when they cut all those trees down understood so uh okay I've got so many things
written here um I only found out recently that we have no list of the street lights that are out so my suggestion I had made a suggestion I I really probably should have put it in the form of a motion that cuz the the
attorney after a lot of two three two and a half months finally figuring out that it took a lot of research that we can in fact start not paying for the street lights that have been out now I made the suggestion third give them 30
days because it might not just be a bulb it might be underground wiring or whatever and I tried to accumulate let's get together and find out how many street lights we have out and when were they first reported being out only to find out there is no list now I know
years ago there used to be a list and it was centralized in public works now uh residents are reporting their own so we have no list on that um it's coming through you know resident complaints and it's being called into
Jersey Central but there's no centralized list i keep dumping stuff on you Glenn but got to get together in some way i know that's being addressed we're going to be sending out a couple of public works employees in the next week or two to do that survey okay we did it about a somewhere between a year
and 18 months ago we did have a list that was bulk reported to Jersey Central we'll have the followup for you okay because it's I I know years ago public works did it and then we were paying them too much overtime and then we had the police doing it on third shift and that just became cumbersome for them so
we had the auxiliaries actually looking at them when it was dark out because our public works employees don't usually work when it's dark out and then it was brought to public works and a uh and it was put together so thank you very much um let me see i did one thing uh
Councilman Zabrowski said before is that I changed my mind when this first came up on the agenda i think it was last month i abstained with this affordable housing numbers because I again it started last year i wasn't involved in it i didn't know a lot then this past
Thursday I believe it was I received a phone call apparently the numbers had gone up or down i don't even remember i think they had originally gone gone down and then they went up a little bit again and the judge needed an answer right away whether we
were going to accept it and so they wanted to know what my vote was going to be and I said well I'm going to abstain because again I don't know enough and oh no no no we need we need a vote and I said well in that case my vote is no so
um then I spoke to the uh the planner and after talking to him I was even more of a no because um I mean if we had purchased that property that not only is it right up against our park but it's
designated prime no housing can go on that property the way it's currently zoned the way this I see this going is since that those acreages were included in this number they have a number of
affordable housing designated there and unless we can make that up someplace else that the zoning will have to change on that so after I heard all of that I was a definite no so I I was never in favor of this and publicly you know
stated at the last time it came up and I am just I really wish I mean I know I know believe me I know that when things are in litigation we can't talk about it but before we're making a formal vote on
this there wasn't even any numbers specified here how do the residents know what's going on perhaps I mean I know it'll be too late cuz we're going to accept this tonight that's the way the numbers went but maybe you could bring
the planner in numbers in the resolution Mary okay but the people read the agenda online and there's no numbers there okay and maybe we could bring the planner in just to explain to the residents exactly
how this is going on because I I would like to enlist I would like to enlist our assemblymen our two assembly people and our senator to maybe help us i I I know you can't change city hall but this
to me affordable housing now is nothing more than a handout to the developers because they're the only ones that win on this no matter how no matter what the towns do we just keep getting stuck and I explained I'm on the first aid squad
and years ago years ago before half of this development was done there was a car t-boned on Main Street took me 20 minutes from the first aid building on Washington Road to get to the accident scene we can't expand our streets
there's nowhere to go affordable housing should be you know made to account for this stuff it shouldn't be oh there's a little piece of land here that's going to be residential and so many have to be affordable that's not the way to handle it that's not safe for the residents in
this town if we ever had to evacuate this town half of the people would probably die because you can't get out of this town there's no it's not that people don't get out of your way in the ambulance they try their best there's nowhere to go when the town gets tied up like that and I if we could you know get
our assembly people and everything on our side maybe if we did a resolution and we we sent it to other towns to get other town we've done that so many times on other things maybe if we could get you know other towns to join in on this maybe something would be done and I know
I feel like Don Coyote tilting at windmills but you know it's just And also maybe we could get them to get involved in uh helping us with JCPNL because in four days we've had two blackouts and they were supposed to be
here tonight i understand the person was sick couldn't come i understand that i was just notified the power's back on well okay the power's back on the point is it's going out all the time and guess where all of the trucks were when I came to the meeting they
were all down there at that portable station that's been there for almost a year and yet in it in their note to us it saidnone of this stuff has anything to do with that i find it hard to believe thank you Mayor okay uh water sewer and environmental Councilman
Sinarski thank you Mayor uh the first one I want to talk about is I did make the appointment with the superintendent of water and sewer and starting next Wednesday coming up I'm going to be making my tours i'm going to start at Dural and um and learn about the wells and the fields and the pumps and
everything there uh the next thing is our next Monday is the environmental not the environmental it's the meeting for the community garden i really don't know how many are left but I will find out Monday because they had the open house after our last meeting so I don't know
how many they have right now uh the environmental meeting is also on Tuesday uh other progress thank you recreation Council President Roberts thank you Mayor um before I get into any
of the fun recreation items um I agree with affordable housing is a problem um and we are up against as a municipality we are up against so many
forces that are mandating what we do so I am making a motion that we oppose Senate Bill 1408 it is according to the New Jersey League of Municipalities also known as
the Stranded Asset Rule it is an unnecessary and unwarranted preeemption of local planning so they want to take more of our planning away from us um in the New Jersey League of Municipalities
statement they noted that any such application can be made through our existing redevelopment process and further the New Jersey League of Municipalities noted that the criteria in the bill is ripe for litigation and expressed concern that this could turn
into a backdoor means to challenge a town's approved affordable housing and expose the municipality to litigation so we have it coming from every direction and I am looking for a second to oppose Senate Bill 1408 as well as the
accompanying assembly companion bill that's anticipated A2757 is there a motion is there a second second motion made and seconded roll call council persons Roberts yes bala
question this is legis recommended this action yes yes yes novak yes sonki yes zabrowski yes we can have a reszo for the next
meeting okay thank you anything else Council President uh yes um thank you for for passing that first of all and I do want to announce what I had done as part of my community outreach as a council
person has been um pre-counsel meetings which have gone on for nearly five years and I think they've run their um path but I do want to continue outreach so I have established office hours the first ones will be here on this Wednesday from
7 to 8:00 um we'll talk about what's on your mind the questions if you can email me questions in advance I have a better chance of getting you answers at that point in time so I encourage that and this way we can have an open discussion about what's on people's minds versus what's on our agendas and how we can all
work together to achieve our goals so I hope that um those of you who are here will take advantage of that as well as contacting any of the council people through our emails and phones we're we are here to serve you um I also wanted
to mention that cultural arts is having a meeting here also on Wednesday it's been advertised it's an extra meeting so we've got a couple of things going on Wednesday if you wanted to come by and I do want to let everyone know memorial
tree plantings on April 12th there will be one for Christian Rivera who was the child who um was deceased behind the Saveville um War Memorial High School there will be a planting near the parks department
building that would be a cherry blossom tree and there will also be a planting for Frank Bella at Veterans Park and that will be a red maple um we're looking forward to having JCPNL here but at least the power
is back on and I will be attending a climate change advisory tomorrow at the Seville High School via remote um and a couple of other things going on include and I'm hoping we can have a community calendar that we've been
talking about but I know that's um something that's out there but April 25th there is a gift card bingo trick or tray fundraiser tricky tray fundraiser at Staint Stands and April 26th the First Presbyterian Church flea market is going
to occur so um want to get a good community calendar for all the events that go on in town thank you Mayor thank you Council Donna i just The Easter egg hunt is before the two tree plantings on the same day okay i think I think I said the Easter egg hunt last meeting i just
took it off my list yes three savings that morning um general discussions and agenda items glenn to award a non-fair and open contract to top security locksmiths for the installation of security doors on the
Burks Park bathrooms in an amount not to exceed 19,000 any objection next item application for special event received from Headover Heels to conduct a community day on April 13th on their property located at 287 Cheesequake Road any objection next item Glenn thank you
mayor authorization to call for a certified list for patrolman from the department of personnel any objection okay uh CFO's report danielle may be uh progress thank you borrow engineers report thank you Mayor nothing
on my agenda but mayor you wanted me to talk about an issue that someone raised concerning the consumer confidence reports that were submitted to the residents go ahead Jay i think there was a question about the lithium quantities that were in that report i spoke with Dave Lightener your water and sewer
director he's your licensed operator he indicated that that is not currently a regulated uh contaminant the state this by the safe drinking water act there's certain unregulated contaminants that they want you to monitor so they can gather data in order to in the future
develop regulations for that lithium quantity at the present time there are none you're not in non-compliance so there's no health and safety issues from the bureau standpoint with those numbers he indicated that if anyone has any specific questions give him a call and also there is information available on
the water department website thank you Jay thank you uh burough attorney Uh nothing this evening thank you Mayor okay at this time we're going to open the public portion for questions or comments on any and all issues jim thank you Mayor Jim Robinson Parl mayor
when in response to Mary's comment about the numbers for the affordable housing you said "Well they were in the resolution pe public could see them." First of all those resolutions weren't out to the public until Friday evening and second of all I pointed out the
second typo where we used a different town woff second typo this year you folks don't even read the resolution so to so to suggest that the public should come on and I will point out this if you go to the burough website and you look at affordable housing it has the January
numbers there that wasn't even updated so let's get real Kennedy okay now I want to talk about and I'm sorry Tina can't be here um I do want to talk about and especially tonight when 23 I'm glad those folks are back or at least some of them most of them are back the 2,300
folks that are out but on the agenda under correspondence is a notice of a public hearing to be held before the BPU on March 31st for JCPNL's verified petition for approval of an infrastructure investment program that's to increase rates for infrastructure
improvement i'm sorry Tina's not here but let me ask this question of the mayor and council the administrator have we inquired if any of these expenditures will help Seraveville and how are we taking a position on this action and these
investments we've had outage after outage after outage um and I would hope we would have a position on this can anybody tell me about this it's on our agenda it's before the BPU are we sending
anybody are we going to comment go ahead Clint nothing i've not reviewed the correspondence yet i just became aware of it tonight well what why do you think they notify us so that they can be received and filed they
notify us so that if we have concerns like outage after outage after outage after outage or street lights being out for a year and a half that we can go to the hearing and address those that's why you folks are elected this public
hearing is an opportunity to represent the burrow and have the problems that the and and voice the problems that the people of the town are having that's why they send this to you that's why they send it to
you i'm disappointed not surprised but disappointed okay you should be up there fighting for us the other thing I want to go back to is what I said earlier the burrow form of government is a weak mayor strong
council form of government you folks the council have an obligation to know this and to do your jobs i understand the mayor has a secret $90,000 dark money slush fund that his chief of staff chairs that he uses to fund your campaign so you have to keep him happy i
understand that but according to the law it's the council that governs the council is the legislative branch it's their job to govern i'm pretty familiar with the statute it's 4860 i'm sure you are all too but I
reviewed it again today nowhere does it say the council's job is to say yes mayor yes mayor yes mayor whatever you'd like mayor but that's what you do well sorry Dan i didn't mean I didn't mean you but you're an example of what
happens when you don't say yes mayor anything you want mayor last year Christian found out what happens when you do that the council and by the way the council and the people are going to miss your independent thinking dan you've got eight months left and I hope in those eight months you will teach
this governing body what a council is supposed to do it's supposed to legislate now the mayor is the executive so it's his job to ensure that what the council enacts is executed so when the council b votes to buy open space as it
did in 2023 it's the mayor's job to ensure that happens that's the law that's the law the council legislates and you voted to do that under the law the mayor is supposed to prepare the budget that the council
votes on needs to be adopted by March 31st but instead what did we do we passed a resolution with the town of Whiteoff in there instead of Saraveville giving him extra time that's the mayor's job mayor you're supposed to have a budget i would note in South Amboy they
introduced and adopted their budget where Dan is the CFO by the way and everybody's getting a big tax break i hope mayor when you present your budget to the council which should have been done by now we'll get an even bigger tax break where are where are we on the
budget that you're supposed to present mayor go ahead Glenn go ahead Daniel we hope to be able to introduce at the next meeting the next meeting so that it'll be introduced at the April April meeting it won't be
adopted in March jim you got to wrap it up mayor Jim thank you jim as always your your motions are in the record i'm sorry thank you thank you it's always a pleasure uh Bob oh wait a minute Bob that young
lady there had her hand raised before you um my name is Dorine Fraga Saddlebrook New Jersey i'm with animal we're with animal protection league of New Jersey and it was brought to our attention 42 geese were rounded up on the property of
Seyville during the mult period in 2024 when geese are flightless and were gassed to death um Seville has a shared service contract with Middle Sex County and the USDA allowing the USDA access to Seville properties to kill the geese i
wrote to the mayor and council i did forward foyer reports and we were hoping to work with Seville and ask them to cancel the shared service contract with Middle Sex County and the USDA and cancel all lethal roundups and work with
animal protection league um the properties that were involved were uh Buchanan 24 geese were gassed uh Kennedy Park 14 geese were gassed major Drive four geese were gassed so that was 42
geese in total that were gassed to death and a few years back I attended a virtual meeting and at the time Mayor Kilpatrick she was the mayor and she stopped all lethal roundups with Middle Sex County and the USDA um so we were
hoping that that you would work with us there are many many non-lethal solutions um there's a few that if you wanted to name um yes uh my name is Valerie and I'm also with Animal Protection League uh to name a few there's a no feeding
ban should be implemented uh a habitat modification um which the number one solution for permanently deterring geese uh overseating with flight turf uh the
grass has bs on it and will uh will bother the geese mouth when they try to eat the geese uh excuse me try to eat the grass uh plus will upset their stomachs uh there's there's more there's the hawk kite which is very effective uh
attaching the tail to the tail of the hawk with streamers and myar strips is very effective uh flags predator cutouts and attaching a plastic bag um these are all ways um that would help uh we'd like
to do a site visit we'd like for this to be considered and uh you know as you could tell we definitely uh do not want geese or any animals to be killed your timing couldn't be better um a two weeks
ago there was ReadAcross America and I was down in Arles School about 20 years ago um I was down in Arles school for in those days they called it Dr sue stay and we had we have a problem with
geese and you know is one of the stopovers for migrating foul and so there are issues and I asked all the kids I deputized all the kids in the class as I did 20 years ago and I asked them for
solutions uh and I have two people in Burough Hall uh uh Elise uh uh Huh yeah elise Baron and Rebecca Garbuski who are going to work with the kids if you leave your information
uh with with the clerk's office I will include you in it now as I said to everybody for me the health of a child comes first and foremost so they have the opportunity now over the years we have tried probably many of the
solutions that that that you have um but I have I have um I have informed everybody I'm giving you the opportunity for humane solutions but I'm I'm a father I'm a grandfather and the health
of a child comes before a goose to me I I I'm not I certainly don't hate animals I grew up with every imaginable pet and they all slept in the bed except for the reptiles uh and and um I'm looking for a
solution for this but we do have a goose problem and one of the problems is people feed the geese so we've had dogs we've had eggling we've had a number of things so I'm always looking for solutions uh and I'll include you in the
process and and I'd be actually very pleased it'll be very helpful to the kids uh who who are really putting putting their all into researching this uh and I know Elise and Rebecca would most certainly welcome you aboard um I
do have a packet of information if you'd give it to Nicole and we'll give it how many copies are in there one but um I have some information do you have it digitally dear i have our our brochure um my card is in there and
then I have here all of the links to everything that's in this up um and I just wanted to add one thing um we work with an ecological landscape she designs this kind of riparian buffer which is the number one
solution to the turbies okay around the lakes and ponds and um well I I told the I told Arla school which is an elementary school and what I found was when someone's uh a little bit taller than your kneecap they they have a
different perspective on life and they see things differently and I have always gone to the kids for solutions because they just they they they don't have a filter and they usually give me excellent solutions and I've been doing that for several decades so I will
include you in the process and the project and um I always look for the humane way first but again I I'm I'm a father and a grandfather and and the health of of a child always comes first for me contact that I could follow up
with as well with um for this program well here in the burl hall sure i'll have Nicole send you Elise and and Rebecca's contact information so I just want my last question would be so the shared can you speak because we're going to miss you on the recording
oh I'm sorry so the shared service agreement that you have with Middle Sex County is that still active or is that Well we're supposed to have results in in about five weeks six weeks so I'll have the the BA check check uh that
agreement and we'll see where we are on it because we would like for you to cancel the lethal portion of that contract because I witnessed a goose roundup i saw what happens to we've been having them here for years when they're gassed to death and it's it's horrific i
I just need you to understand I I I'm the opposite of hating animals hating pets but before I I allow a kid to go to a playing field that's that's loaded with goose droppings I I I will gas them
because no kid should No because a kid will touch it and then they put the it just spreads disease and I won't have that um I I'm sorry i just wanted to add one other thing edgewater is right on the Hudson and they had that's a edgewater is across the river from us
right and they had a goose problem and they've been non-lethal now since 2016 i included his contact information they have done wonderful things they had all the poop issue and and all that kind of thing they um ended up buying a poop
machine and they've done the kids recommended that 20 years ago and we bought it we still have it we still use it i can't wait to meet these kids they're well it's a new generation but they're they're committed and like I said I get wonderful ideas and solutions
from them so welcome aboard oh good maybe we could recruit them sardom Young thank you very much for allowing me to speak tonight appreciate it okay Bob is Bob here or did he he leave oh Bob there you are
i could have left because the power's back on in my house yeah yeah that's good bob Eaggan Save uh just a couple things the meeting for this uh Jersey Central where is that going to be held
the BPU it's not a meeting the just the representative will be here we ask that you submit your questions before it bpu he's talking about what's on the BPU or or Oh Glenn because there's no address there i became aware of it tonight i've
not yet seen the letter i will review it tomorrow i I don't know yet okay somebody will get a hold of you Bob and let you know okay and uh as far as this you know these power outages and they're talking about infrastructure they spent a ton of money on these smart meters I'm sure how come
they didn't spend that money to fix our problem you know that's one thing and uh another thing I have since I'm a a few months shy of 70 I had other things to do so I didn't come to some of the meetings but uh a few meetings ago
Councilman Sarski when Councilman Novak brought up making the firehouse a historical site in our town he said it was too early i don't know if you can comment on why it's too early i would think the sooner you can apply for
grants to get money the better so I don't know why is it too early to uh hold on to make it a site we got an answer for despite the assertions of people to the contrary we did our research through the grant writer there is a minimal amount of grants that are
available for historic preservation the vast majority of that money goes to places of higher significance than our original town hall if we're to wait for grants it will delay the project years because it comes in increments of 15 25
$50,000 we have the ability under the current open space fund to do historical preservation we have the money in the account and it's going to be leveraged to get that building completed we're currently working with the architect and the planning at after which we'll be in a position to go out to bid in short
order to take care of the environmental problems in the building and then the building reconstruction can begin the architect's been instructed to make sure that it's preserved but but from a historical perspective and that is what the outcome of that will be once the job
is completed well the thing is why can't you apply anyway if you get Well because it costs money to apply for grant we have to pay the grant writer to do that and it takes an exponential amount of time for a minimum of money so essentially it's a
decision based on return of investment we have the funding here available to move forward why would we delay the project when clearly the voters have spoken by a 2 to1 majority they wanted the building preserved we can act on it and get it done okay good enough and then as far as the the range now if it's
going to cost seville a substantial amount of money to create a buffer to knock down the noise so that people when they're sitting in their houses during the summer and warm months and have to listen to it sounded like a good old boy demonstration today it didn't sound like
a a controlled range to me and uh I would say I don't know how many the police forces come i'm great you know I support police believe me but if it's going to cost us a ton of money either they split the money or I'm sure Fort Dicks has
plenty of available ranges okay so what's going on with the range currently there is an uptick in there is an uptick in activity our police department transitioned to new weapons which requires a full day of training for each of our almost 90 officers which is why there's been an upgrade in
activity as I explained to Councilwoman Novak earlier we have engaged we're engaging with an acoustic specialist to determine what the best sound mitigation strategies are and in the money that we've garnered over the last several years having the Port Authority visit us periodically we will use that money to
do whatever mitigation needs to be done and it will not have to come out of the general fund great as long as it works and it's not our money thank you are there any other questions yes ma'am hello can you I can't hear you have to
come closer and speak in the mic hi my name is Leela Binham live in Sville um I came to understand about I've been living here for about four years now and electricity is going out more and more frequently and I'm not really sure if
it's like an infrastructure issue um not sure what's happening before when I first came here it was like maybe a couple times a year and now frequently we lost electricity again a little while ago which is why I came here to understand what's what's happening that was one of the questions we were going
to ask the representative tonight i we we have asked that question before um it's best when the representative comes we we've been told it's not a capacity issue um it's they they they don't quite clarify
exactly what it is but they have stated it's not capacity uh I know that's the first thing that that comes to mind um I think it's more about infrastructure when I've called them they also are not clear the answer like Well they're
consistent and and the 25 26 years I've been up here it's pretty consistent answer so uh when we if you would leave your information with Nicole or or Jessica as soon as I get some I'll have
it sent to you okay all right thank you you're welcome are there any other questions comments not being any I'll entertain a motion make a motion to close public is there a
second second roll call favor i in favor to close it not yet hold on um thank you young lady what's the number
oh oh wow more on YouTube must have been the power okay uh tonight's number uh Zoom which is the burrow portal were 12 five of them were employees youtube was
22 uh okay a couple things um as I said you know a lot a lot of a lot of what goes on is is personal here personal attacks um when I came back I I did a a podcast with Mayor McCormack in Woodbridge which
is a town twice our size twice our population and I specifically asked Mayor McCormack how he was dealing with the street light outage it's just a common thing throughout New Jersey and he said he has seniors that have
volunteered what what you have to do is find a poll where the bulb is out and every poll has a serial number on it and and uh you write it down and and and you report it so I know that the Councilman
Kacy is has taken it upon himself and I know Mr robinson uh who's a senior has has done some work here it all helps it's not the ultimate solution but it's the most uh cost favorable solution for
us that being said um affordable housing when I became mayor you you inherit c you inherit certain housing projects you create certain housing projects
seville in my opinion has really been discovered on the map and it's the location my understanding is the population in New Jersey is moving south of Ron River uh the jobs are north and
so we're we're we're just a very convenient location why many of us work uh moved here but that being said in my uh mayor's office the number one most difficult issue to deal with is finding
people affordable housing and and and the super number one problem is single mothers with children to find them an affordable place to live is a very very difficult task
so it used to be if we put in affordable housing we could make the stipulation for sevil residents only you are no longer allowed by law to make that restriction uh public uh affordable housing is for
everyone that is the law am I correct counselor you are correct Mary okay so that being said particularly now with with the price of housing in Seville you know people keep saying that several years ago under Mayor Kilpatrick they had this
40 acres in Saraveville Park appraised that's the first process it was appraised for $650,000 and as I said at the last minute uh on North Edward they just sold a a Cape Cod house uh for
$630,000 the property valued at Riverton is uh valued at a million an acre the property on Journey Mill Road where they're building those warehouses is half a million dollars an acre so to to
say that that we can pick up that property uh for $650,000 is really a bold-faced lie it it it's not even misinformation it's just a bold-faced lie uh that being said the same people that are are are
promoting that I I remember when the Ernston Road connection from Washington Road to Main Street was going through I received numerous phone calls uh to stop it when Patriot Hills development went in I received phone calls to stop
it you can't It's the right of the property owner it's the right It's It's what the country was founded on uh I wish I had a different answer but that is the legal answer um the the development going on up behind Costaver
in in Melrose that was approved um in the last administration and I'm not I'm not throwing the blame around but it was when that was approved Kennedy you were the mayor when that was approved when it was approved on the planning board that
was that was a deal where national lead owned that property and they had to go I don't know it was a conditional sale i was out of it by the time that went through um so that being said you inherit stuff you create stuff it's part
of progress so the the average cost of a house in Seville now is an easy half a million dollars half a million to a million we've had several houses sell for a million dollars so the serville that I came to long ago is a lot
different than the serville is today um it's it's gaining an affluence and as I said sitting up here we're managing a service business we're here to provide the police fire and first aid pick up
the trash we have 600 roads that we need to take care of we supply water to slash I'm going to say 13 14,000 residents homes jay do you know the number 16 16 17,000
these are the things that were in charge of of of making sure that we can deliver the services you know in New Jersey when I came to New Jersey in 1958 uh one of the memories uh and I and I
was four years old so I'll be 72 this year um was uh in those days hunters wore those red and black check jackets and there were these hunters walking down Main Street with a with a with shotguns over their arms it was just the
way it was you know it was accepted so we're dealing with progress and and you can fight all you want but this is now part of the legislation and that's one of the questions we asked our attorney who's a top flight land use attorney
along with municipal and if if for whatever reason these hundred odd towns and there's what 560 towns in the state if they're successful in reversing this legislation we win we
just didn't have to spend any money if if they're not able to reverse this legislation we're where we were in the beginning do you want to give a report on your meetings with the judges absolutely uh thank you mayor um yeah I think it's important that the the public
understands how the process actually works this process for the fourth round affordable housing is statutoily established it's a new process that was established by an amendment to the Fair uh the Fair Housing Act uh in March of last year about a year ago and what how
it works is in uh October the DCA established a number for or a regional need based on a state need of affordable housing an established methodology for determining the allocation of that need to each municipality after allocating it
to each individual region uh middle sex counties in region three uh so that is the that is the region we have to deal with and in doing so that it their report was uh nonbinding on municipalities what the the legislation did was actually put it on the
municipalities to make their own determination as to what their affordable housing obligation is but the caveat is you have to follow the exact formula that's set forth in the statute so when we got the meaning the burrow got the uh DCA report in October the
planner myself uh members of the governing body and and staff reviewed that in detail and looked at where in the DCA report if it was correct or whether there was errors in there because that DCA report provided an uh perspective meaning what you need to
accomplish in the fourth round obligation of 170 units so in doing so we found that there were some errors there were some errors with regard to the developable land that they calculated for the burrow and we then recalculated it based upon those numbers
and in compliance with the statute adopted a resolution uh on before January 31st setting forth what our obligation is and that we determined was 210 units so we reduced it from what the DCA had determined when we adopted our
resolution in January the courts then established a program an alternative dispute program through the superior court that you had to file an action a declaratory judgment complaint putting forth your resolution and asking the courts to confirm it and getting a
judgment in order to confirm it and in doing so it also this this is all in compliance with the statute the statute then set forth a period of time where any objector can file objections to how you calculated that number in in uh Seerville we received two objections one
from the uh fair housing uh uh fair share housing center and from the New Jersey builders association both of them rejecting to our number uh fair share uh provided their own calculation which then ended up being uh approximately the same as the DCA's calculation saying
that we really needed to pro provide an obligation of 270 units the builders association basically said no municipality should be able to change the the DCA numbers you have to accept those DCA numbers so as part of this program we had to go through a vigorous very very short time period uh
settlement um uh conference with the the program judge which is a retired affordable housing judge from the prior round along with special masters and engage in by by law by statute you had to engage in the settlement uh with good faith to try to come up with a
resolution for it uh then after that you go into what they call a session if you can't settle you go into a session which is essentially a hearing before the program judge and then the program takes the the the results of that session brings it to a recommendation to an affordable housing judge at the superior court and they make a final
determination as to what the rulings are uh during our process for Seyville we actually were working very well with fair share and they actually agreed with all of our acreage that we determined was developable that and agreed that DCA was wrong with uh the only difference
was was how they calculated uh util the methodology they calculated the math they used versus what we did and we worked and and negotiated very hard with them and were able to come to a settlement of 240 units versus the 270 that they originally were trying to push
upon us the the builders association was was forcing upon us and what the DCA came to and so that is what was authorized in this resolution this evening is a settlement whereby we're agreeing to uh a a prospective need obligation of 240 units and that is what
now the next step we have to do pursuant to the statute is now plan for that that doesn't necessarily mean that every one of those units going to be built doesn't mean that we're going to have 240 new uh affordable housing units being developed we're going to look plan and come up with creative ways to address that need
through bonus credits through all different types of mechanisms that that's what our next step in the process is and we're going to then uh by the deadline is the end of June have to adopt a new fair share plan that identifies how we're going to address those so there will be more um action
for this governing body as well as the planning board coming up in the very future uh but it is something that the um the I believe the bureau and in my opinion and being involved with numerous municipalities doing through this process as well as my office is and I've been in con constant contact with other attorneys who represent other
municipalities through this concept uh through this process and I truly it's my recommendation that this is a good outcome on behalf of the municipality uh this settlement number and I think it's going to be in the the bureau's best interest that it did adopt this resolution okay thank you everyone for coming out tonight and with that I'll
take a motion for adjournment i make a motion to adjurnn is there a second second all in favor i oppose thanks every