e e e 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 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 our FL I Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for stands Nation indivisible and jusice for all statement of publication take notice
that this regular agenda meeting of the mayor and burough Council being held on this 24th day of February 2025 has been posted and advertised in accordance with the open public meetings act chapter 231 Public Law 1975 roll call Council person's Bala here
Ki Mike say here here Novak here Roberts here sari here zabowski council president um I move the following minutes of the mayor and Council be approved on roll call vote subject to correction if necessary February 10th
regular agenda there a second second roll call Council person's Roberts yes Bala yes poliisi yes Novak yes tarski yes zabowski yes at this time I'm going to ask to governing Bonnie uh to go up to
the rail and we would ask the contingent of firemen uh to come forward as we are honoring a sville hero fire captain Nick luchano a president Park
this one that don't work okay come come closer M all right so councilman kesy is in charge of the fire department and I've asked him to do the honors of a very grateful and proud
burrow so we're here to present the certificate of recognition presented by the mayor and the Council on this day 24th day of February 2025 fire captain Nick luchano president
park truck number five the burough of sarraille would like to acknowledge president in Parks truck five fire captain Nick luchano for his quick thinking and bravery displayed on Thursday January 30th at 9:26 a.m. as he
responded to a multiple structure fire in adjacent in the adjacent town of South River an urgent Mayday call came over the radio there were two trapped firefighters pinned from a collapsed
wall against the car without hesit ation Captain luchano immediately leaped into action with the help of a member from the County Fire Marshall's office his Swift actions helped free both men from
a perilous lifethreatening situation Captain lano's quick thinking courage and Leadership exemplify the highest ideas of the fire service his bravery and selfless actions played a
crit crucial role in ensuring the safety of his fellow firefighters and he is truly deserving of commendation for his heroic efforts thanks n Nick do you want to speak or you gonna have
somebody it's all about you you know one thing about firemen they're they're the bravest people you'll ever meet except when it comes to public speaking so on behalf of a very proud and grateful borrow uh Nick we we
just want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts as I told you fireman out in the hall when I give a speech for firemen I say these are special people I said as we run out of the burning building they run inside and you certainly uh exemplified that type of
Courage at this fire over in South River we're very proud of you more than that we're very proud you're saille fire captain so we welcome you we honor you and we thank you appreciate it want I just wanted to say a couple words
that commanding officers of the department this is like a worst nightmare when we hear I made a call go out and I'm just grateful that Nick was there in the time and on the uh Mayday call I just command
you you know I I always like a 50-year man let me call him up richd kuski has served 50 years as a volunteer in the Cal Fire Department Rich you're you're not at a loss of word whether spoken or written so let tonight that be the first
time you are I don't think you got enough time give a tap on their show 50 years just seems like a dream it just went by so fast but I guess the first years was a stepping stone to move on to bigger and
better things throughout the state and my social media runs anywhere from North Jersey all the way down to K May friends I've made acquaintances meetings fire calls just a lot of people and uh I'm just thankful
that I was able to do it for that many years thank you we're making a documentary about fireman puski and uh we're looking forward to okay all right I'll have this much you'll have this much as it should be
all right gentlemen of this and and Ladies of the cable fire department we we stand with all due respect and all our EV thank you for Donna yes um before we go on there's a couple of um appointments I just want to make sure
that we get to um so we have um I'd like to appoint Sharon Rus to Cultural Arts go through the ball and then if there are objections it'll come gon have I don't you can't do it that way well she's just gonna have to slow
down Sharon Rus Sharon Rus okay Robin Golem gol for three years on wreck I think Sharon's the only one that's not on that list and then I would like to make the appointments for sustainable serville um
threeyear me two-year member Meadow magnani two-year member Aaron W and our student rep Giana rovic rovic rovic okay and that that be all of the
um appointments for tonight okay uh uh is there a second roll call Council persons Roberts yes ala yes Ki yes noac yes sonari yes
zabowski yes okay and with that we'll go to Old business yep public hearing on ordinance number 6-25 bur of saille County of middlex ordinance authorizing 39 Motor Vehicle Enforcement upon the private roadways throughout the Rockville residential
development uh at this time I'm going to open the public portion for questions or comments are there any questions or comments being no questions or comments I'll entertain a motion I move the public hearing be closed the ordinance adopted on second
and final reading and advertised according to law second roll call Council person's kesi yes ala yes Novak yes Roberts yes tarski yes zabowski yes public hearing on ordinance number 7-25
burrow of saille County of middle sex ordinance amending and updating the fees for the burrow community garden this time I'm going to open the public portion for questions or comments on this ordinance are there questions or comments being none I'll entertain a motion councilman sari thank you mayor I
move the public hearing be closed the ordinance adopted on the second and final reading is advertised according to law second roll call council person sinari yes ala yes polii yes Novak yes Roberts zabowski yes introduction of the
following ordinances number 8-25 and ordinance supplementing and amending ordinance 40-23 fixing the salaries of certain burrow officials officers and employees for the years 2025 to 2027 councilman Bala move the ordiance be approved on first reading advertised according to law and a public hearing be
held at 3102 25 second roll call Council person's Bala yes polii yes Novak yes Roberts sinari yes zabowski ordinance number 9-25 an ordinance supplementing and amending ordinance number 3-24 fixing the salaries of certain B
officials officers and employees for the years 2025 to 2027 councilman Bela with the ordance to be approved on first reading advertised according to law and a public hearing be held on 310 2025 second roll call Council person's Bala yes polii yes Novak yes Roberts yes
zarski yes zabowski yes at this time um I'm going to open the public portion for questions or comments on resolutions Jim thank you mayor Jim Robinson Parlin on resolution 69 I'm very happy that the
jcpnl property is going to be looked at for redevelopment I've been talking about this for almost a year I think it's got great potential properly done properly cleaned up it can be a great asset to the town so I'm happy to see you moving um and that sometimes you
take suggestions on 20 2567 which is called authorizing the submission of a Grant application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Green Acres Program for Kennedy Park Trail improvements I spent a lot of time thinking about this over
the weekend finally I realized that's a mistake that should be Bailey Park not Kennedy Park is that correct should that be bayy Park Trail improvements no that should be Kennedy Park Trail improvements accepting of the
grant pardon me it's paperwork filed to accept the grant that we've been approved for and the grant is for Kennedy Park Trail Improvement Kennedy Park there are no trails at Kennedy Park
running trail now we did there there's a pathway Trail means of pedestrian conveyance it's the concrete That's goes around both laks that's going to be replaced is this for the widening yes this is for the widening okay so and this is a so we're accepting
$325,000 and it's a matching Grant so it conceivably cost $650,000 to widen you call them Trails the sidewalks at Ken Park trails are normally through Woods through wooded areas like the 40 acres the 40 acres
behind Kennedy Park that would be an appropriate place to have Trails but we don't own that okay now last year we talked about that that widening of the um sidewalks and that will be great you
know for a parent who has triplets and wants to walk them pre ulate them in the park but the other than that I can't imagine that widening of those sidewalks is the major issue in Kennedy
Park and I'd like to ask since this is a matching Grant where is the $325,000 that could be the Burrows match coming from go ahead we don't have a budget yet right we only have a temporary budget it'll
probably be in our Capital plan for this year that'll be in the capital fund okay thank you now I find I find it very interesting that we are willing to pay $650,000 three and a quarter from us three and a quarter from the state to
widen the sidewalks in Kennedy Park but we have an appraisal that says we can buy 40 acres the adjacent 40 acres and that appraisal came in at $590,000 so we could buy those four
according to this appraisal those 40 acres are worth less than $600,000 but we're going to spend $650,000 to widen the sidewalks in Kennedy Park uh you know I
saw this and I thought are these the moving sidewalks are these people movers or these yellow brick roads 650 $50,000 to widen sidewalks in Kennedy Park that I almost wanted to email Elon about this
this this it just makes no sense but Donna this is your department um Parks did you inquire to see if we could get a three a $600,000 Green Acres Grant to purchase the 40 ACR to extend the park
or just you need to stay on the resolution you're going off the resolution so it's questions or comments about a resolution so please please make your comments or any questions okay my comment about the resolution then is I
think it would make a lot more sense and the people of the burrow of cille would much rather that we preserve 40 acres adjacent to Kennedy Park than spend what could be $650,000 to widen the sidewalks how how
how wide these sidewalks will go from what to what how wide to how wide under this $650,000 project going to 10t wide from what their current width from what from their current width uh four
feet okay thank you Jim okay it's it's obvious you don't have answers man oh man do you like to waste money when you could spend less money less money and acquire 40 acres and preserve
it some would rather it be maybe a warehouse maybe housing I don't know thank you mayor counc are there any other questions or comments about the resolutions being no others I'll entertain a motion that the resolutions be approved and adopted on
Roll Call vote mayor I move the public hearing be closed and the consent agenda resolutions be approved on roll call vote there second second roll call Council persons Roberts yes Bala in
resolution 2025 d62 I'm going to say on adex Bill yes on all their items polii yes Novak I just have a few questions first um I got one of them answered when I was downstairs I should have asked them all sorry um I noticed
that there's no bill this month for jaffy communications well I guess he didn't send it in okay um it there's a a bill here for uh Jock's catering from Middletown for February meeting do we know what meeting
I think that's Office on Aging Office on Aging okay thank you and um there's also a for Morgan first aid can I assume that that's somehow a mistake that's actually being looked at we noticed a major anomaly and electric
charges for both of our first aid squads uh we just got today 12 months worth of data and we're looking into why that is and we'll come up with an explanation thank you uh yes yes zabowski yes
uh a motion to accept the correspondence as listed so moved roll call Council persons Roberts yes Bala yes kisi yes Novak yes narski yes zabowski may and Council okay uh
Administration and finance um councilman Bala thank you mayor uh just real busy on on the budget right now we're a little behind because some issues with some uh staff down there with some some sicknesses so uh hopefully next meeting
we'll have better better numbers and more progress thank you planning and zoning councilman zabowski thank you mayor uh just a few things one a reminder for our seniors that United Way began providing the free income tax uh preparation as of February
4th that's still available down at the Active Adult Center there is a Dropbox uh which is secure if in fact you want to just simply drop off your tax documents but you can also um schedule an appointment which are from um 9:00 a.
to 12:00 noon for an inperson I just have to call the center for that uh hopefully we won't have any more uh uh inclement weather but if we do uh there's also a list for individuals from our town that do snow rable uh and snow plowing for our seniors as well that can
be negotiated for one of our interested residents planning board in uh were had meetings but those meetings were basically for administrative matters uh the board of board of adjustment meets on Wednesday to hear a variance application uh there is no uh
schedule for the next meeting for the mosque as of yet we're waiting for them for that to happen and as soon as it will we'll publish more information on that because we know many are interested and then finally um we had a wonderful ceremony tonight uh feeding one of our
volunteer firment for great heroism you know that can't happen if our roles don't continue to rise for those groups that require volunteers to for uh what we need uh our forest service and also
our first aid squads are always as Mary knows in constant need for new uh membership and I just I put it out as much as possible that uh if you are interested in whatever and I mean whether it's not always about heroism it's about just doing the best thing for
your for your community and uh so again uh I always like to plug the fact that uh applications are always available for anyone that may be interested in these volunteer services mayor that's my report thank you uh councilman kesy Public Safety okay thanks mayor good evening
everyone so I'll start out I'll start off with uh Chris Barley's report to me from office of emergency management so the Sarahville OEM has successfully obtained 12 level one trauma kits
through middle sex County OEM which have been distributed to each School each public school that we have here so at no cost to the burrow and no cost to the board of education and the training for
the use of these kits was provided by two members of our Sarahville PD to all the security staff at the schools so OEM is actively collaborating with the Board of Education Safety and Security committee
to enhance their reunification policy so in case you're wondering what that is that reunification is anything then a lockdown and then they have to reunify the children with their parents and Guardians after that so our OEM team
will attend the New Jersey state emergency preparedness conference in Atlantic City in April to receive updated training so next I have Chief Plum marker's report from the Sarahville Police Department the department continues to
address concerns regarding tractor trailer parking on Kennedy Drive they have enforced the no overnight parking ORD ordinance by issuing numerous summonses and towing multiple Vehicles
additionally they are working with code enforcement to clean up the garbage and debris that was left on both sides of Kennedy Drive summonses have also been issued for tractor trailers parked on the shoulder of Bordentown Avenue in the
area of Winding Woods following additional parking complaints from those residents so Sergeant brail is researching enhancements to the overnight truck parking ordinance and will soon provide recommendation to the council for stricter
penalties and finally the patrol division is maintaining high visibility patrols during early morning hours to deter criminal activity and response to the Statewide increase in occupied home burglaries and car
thefts the department has received several reports of suspicious activity from residents during these times and encourage everyone to continue reporting such incidences additionally PD reminds all residents to lock their vehicles as
most most vehicle burglaries occur uh due to the unlocked doors and lastly from uh the chief from the fire department uh nothing to report so that's all I have from your favorite
councilman thank you councilman Public Works councilwoman Novak yes mayor um I really can't say enough about our public works department I don't know if you noticed how many of the volunteer farm and are our Public Works people um they
really did a great job I mean I was actually traveling in the last snowstorm and the state didn't do anything prior to it being about an inch on the state highways and the county even Main Street and Washington Road really wasn't done
they did the bridges but our streets our local streets were done they were all pre-treated so I mean we got a lot more snow than was really anticipated I'm telling you driving in it was unbelievable particular when the state was out there throwing stuff around my whole windshield was covered with you
know pre-treat which was a little silly at that point because we were no longer in the pre-treat stage so another kudos to our uh public works department they always do a great job and I really quick about the uh V I don't know a lot of people in this in this town don't even
realize how lucky we are the training to be a volunteer first AER or a volunteer fireman is ex actly the same as a paid and so what they did with was so heroic I've seen many heroic Deeds over the
years but most of it is just training and washing the trucks after each call very mundane stuff but they do it we are extremely lucky most towns in this County no longer have volunteer anything and we still have a majority volunteer
first aid and a 247 volunteer a fire department we are extremely lucky um Michael um you were talking about Kennedy Drive uh when that was first allowed to be built according to the county you were not allowed to make the
left out of that street and they are this the sign is no longer there and they're making so when they come out and make a left turn they just block all of Main Street so maybe we could look into did something change because the original resolution was no left turn there are some missing signs they're
getting replaced I mean that's that's just downright uh dangerous okay I have an uh a question for the attorney did you find out if we could legally stop paying on lights that are out for over 30 days I don't have a final answer for that I'm still looking into it I
apologize but we are still trying to get the the current agreement we have prior agreements with the with the jcpnl under the terms of where we're paying for the street lights but uh still trying to get a hold of the current agreement which will govern our options possible we
don't even have a current agreement possible nobody bothered to you know okay by the next meeting maybe okay um because I mean it's not just the lights now um we had a resident um from palaski
Avenue who sent me an email and showed me pictures of a pole that was supposed to be replaced and the new pole is sitting there never firmly secured in the ground next to the old pole that is at a you know like a 45
degree angle almost with the roadway and they have done nothing but call call call call call Jersey Central and they say they're going to fix it and it still isn't done and it's it's been quite a while again not to mention the temporary trailer for that that's been there like
10 months something like that you can't tell me that that doesn't have something to do with the fact that I've lived in this town 50 years will be 50 years in January the we don't we constantly somebody
sneezes and our power goes out in this town you know Jersey Central I would what I would really like at the next meeting or as soon as possible that we get a representative in here from JC p pnl and we let the residents of this town as well as the council prepare
questions and talk directly to somebody we used to have somebody that used to come in once a month ever since retired we would I think maybe we saw two different people at two different times over all those years I think it's about time we get somebody in here and we hold their feet to the fire because this is just it's just not fair to the uh
residents in this town okay what else did I have here um okay that's um is it possible to a cop copy of the contract from Morgan engineering I mean we must have a
contract with them correct yes pleas you can email it to me you don't to although I am a paper person that's fine now I have another question and believe me I'm not trying to start trouble any more than I would normally right Kennedy
um right at the beginning of last year we did away with um allowing the public to participate in zoom and then we said that people couldn't come up and answer questions and although that has kind of not been
held as tightly as normal but the whole reason was we hired there's four new hires in this town that are here just to help answer the questions for the residents of the town so we're paying a lot of money we're not allowing people
to ask questions here or on zoom and yet somebody and I actually read this online so the person didn't come directly to me with this but it's online that he sent an email and it said your emails have
been blocked is that not a lawsuit waiting to be happened when you have somebody who they send an email to the town to the mayor and Council and uh they're told that their emails are blocked Mary I assume you're talking
about there was a statement made by your Mentor Jim Robinson not my he was blocked uh so I have um the ba um he has an answer for you on that okay great yeah we have a printed copy it was
sorted out by the AI as part of our email system it was not a conscious act to block anybody right I mean because I I mean to me Lord knows we're involved in enough lawsuits so you know we just be inviting one if that was intentional thank God okay my next question was how
many people have been blocked but I guess that's you know need doesn't need to be answered and let me see I'm sorry okay that's all thank you mayor Mary just a uh followup on your inquiry
with the uh jcpnl on palaski Avenue the uh so that work is still in progress I just got an update before the meeting this poll and a few others are Verizon polls that they replaced so JPC J jcpnl
needs to transfer equipment over to the new pole so I believe this is on the schedule for next week depending on weather and other emergencies uh when the work is complete meaning every utility including the
cable that you know if they still have the wires on the pole has transferred their equipment the old poles are removed and the dirt will be used to fill In Those Old Poles so I went to see the resident today great and um it's not
standard practice to use cement I found out to put in the holes but they're taking care of it and that'll be cleared up soon I still I still would like to see jcpnl in here to answer some questions because I still have a real problem with that substation over there
that's still a temporary trailer how long is temporary but thank you thank you water sewer environmental councilman sarki thank you mayor uh the Water and Sewer the water department produced 50 million gallons of portable water that
was used in the month of January SE Department's doing a lot of maintenance on all of their underground utilities as far as their pump stations lift stations they're replacing pumps that are burned up they're replacing check valves that don't hold um there's a lot of things going down as far as
that soon as the weather breaks I'm going to start in do do hernel and I'm going to do all of the pable water stations I want to learn more about the wells and the infrastructure on that then when I complete that I'm going to go underground with them and I'm going do to sewer and I'll find out everything about that because there's going to be a
lot of changes coming up because there's a lot of antiquated pipes and stuff that has to be updated in this town so again there's going to be some things that are going spending money on the infrastructure in the water and sewer that's the end of my report thank you mayor thank you uh Recreation council
president Roberts thank you I will end with some fun things um first the next event is going to be the indoor LED glow mini golf um that's going to be at the senior center um half hour I think it's
every 30 minutes our appointments for uh play and um I didn't go to last year's I know Mike did had a great time heard wonderful things about it also we have a lot of uh groups and commissions and committees that are running events and
um it seemed that there was a lot of there were events that seemed to be clashing not clashing but um kind of competing meting with ourselves on events so we had a recent meeting with the human Relations Committee with the
um library with the cultural arts committee and Recreation we all went through our calendars uh we went through some best practices for events and um found where we might be able to work together with some of the events that are run by um multiple committees and
commissions they've all gotten now um contact information across the the different departments so that they can work together independently I think this is something that we'd like to do annually just to get a level set um get calendars out and we're looking forward
to having a master calendar of events um for everything maybe not the library they have a lot of things on their own but some of their major events will cross over and have a master events list so that our community has one place to go to for all of those types of um
information and that's all for my report today thank you thank you we'll go to a a general discussion authorization for the tax collector to rund taxes and cancel all subsequently bill taxes due to 100% disabled veteran tax exemption 7
Virginia Street in the amount of $1,187 next item8 um application for a place to place transfer transfer receiv from marula 2 um to place his pocket license at uh right across the street here at hag
Street at truly Thai next item and for recreation application for a special event received from the dorad dish Temple for March 14th and March 15th and the Masjid sadar Community Center to hold a prayer service on March 30th and
June 7th at Kennedy Park from 7:00 am to 2 okay um business administrators report thank you mayor just two items authorization to apport Richard to appoint Richard hon as management specialist in the finance department of of April 1st 2025 any objection next
item authorization to appoint Jenna Huff as clerk one in the water and sore Department effective March the 1st 2025 any objection uh cfo's report just a budget transfer resolution okay uh burrow Engineers
thank you may one item 2020 Road Project phase three which was Avon Way and Stratford Road recommending the project be closed out and a net change order with a reduction be approved that's all I have thank you okay uh borrow attorney uh nothing this evening mayor thank you okay this time I'm going to open the
public portion for questions or comments on any and all issues 10 thank you mayor kenel sheski seral several meetings ago after the public portion was closed the mayor had some comments about me and I said after that
that I'd be here to to discuss that so tonight I'm going to do that um the item I want to talk about he said that I was rejected uh well I've been married for over 50 years happily I might add and I
don't think I've been rejected it's also the same woman um let me say a little bit about the mayor here because the idea that that he comes here and acts like a blue blood is starting to get to many people that talk to me um I sat
there for 6 years on the council early in early in the term one of my colleagues came to me and said I had a call from a guy named Kennedy O'Brien wants to get involved oh really okay what does he want to do well he said he likes
children um okay well nobody seems to know him the logical place maybe would be to put him in a Rec Department on a Rec board but nobody seems to know this Scot so I don't know where that went who
went to who but we got some background information on Kennedy O'Brien it seemed he had been a beach bomb for years in California he also told me that by the way that it's independently um and then he came here and he became a
butcher and when he was in California the word it was and and is that he was rejected numerous times out there like 1 2 three maybe four times so uh I don't know where we go with this rejected
thing but let let me go to another aspect of it were we talking about elections I haven't been involved in an election in 30 years Megan if you're going back there let's go back you want to go back there let's go back there
when when Kennedy O'Brien ran for the assembly in New Jersey he got beat pretty bad so I'd say he was rejected he was rejected pretty bad and then if you want us something
recently let's look at the firehouse next door the referendum the referendum who idea was it was Kennedy O'Brien's idea whose idea was it to put the $3 million in there that would be beaten it
was Kennedy O'Brian's idea and who and and he fought tooth Andale against us campaigned against it sent out literature against it denounced Mary here for supporting it and all the other people that supported it and the
referendum won 2 to one and Kennedy O'Brien lost 2 to1 so I'd say you were rejected pretty good mayor so if you want to talk about rejection you should look in the mirror as a matter of fact I think you're the king of rejection you
might want to stop at Burger King I think they have those little crowns you could wear that as the king of rejection so you want to talk about people you should look in the mirror and talk about yourself first and I think what we're trying to do here what we're trying to
do is change the subject and hide the things that are going on in CVO hide the 100 million tax giveaway that he did and he was brought all these people in for hide the the fact that there's no questions asked at council meeting no
questions answered which of course most people would think that's that talks about corruption they don't want to answer questions because they're hiding things uh and how about I think Mary just brought up the the numerous AIDS in
the B what do you have now mayor somebody said you had four aids is this New York City maybe you come out and say who they are and how much they're being paid sucked out of the taxpayers dollars and finally I brought this up at the
last meeting selling jobs I talked about selling the job for this guy from South Jersey Zach and nobody responded so I talk about standing here about selling jobs nobody responds you know what I guess
that's true nobody rebutted that so when we talk about corruption and and the mayor says he was trying to clean up corruption that's part of his campaign is it trying to clean up corruption or trying to start corruption mayor I think
that's what should answer to the people of sville thank you very much anyone else Bob Bob Duffy 111 Merit Avenue I have you your answer Mary on uh Kennedy Drive
I own that property where the building is in 2000 and in 2001 we were in front of the planning board and we got a left lane turn approved by the county and by
several and I de think Dave handled it Jay uh you know but is but I sold the prodct I didn't get that far with the property I sold it to chelette and I don't know what happened to the left
turn lane but but it was approved not 2001 okay so okay thank you thank you mayor thanks M Anthony good evening mayor uh Anthony spado Washington Road uh mayor I wanted
to come out and speak tonight to pull the average age of a speaker in the public portion down from the 70s that you had mentioned at the last council meeting though I know a 69-year-old resident who would bristle at being unfairly aged um you also know that 69y old resident mayor he is the one who AI
must have somehow blocked one of your your biggest detractors from being able to email you he's a concerned citizen whose participation at these Council meetings predates your term and whose contributions have inspired residents in this buau to participate more to pay more attention to ask more questions and to show up and understand the ways in
which this burough functions so mayor knowing that you have said you are not here to answer questions but also knowing that you or someone on your staff are actively blocking residents from participating through the means you suggested we use um which is to either call or email and knowing of course that conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy
Cony Barrett wrote for the majority and saying that if a public official has authority to speak for the government and that official purports to be acting within the authority a public official runs a foul of the first amendment in Block blocking a person I think the public has owed an explanation of why you yet again exceeded the authority of
a mayor in a weak mayoral system of burough government in blocking a resident's email I think the public has owed an explanation of how many other residents are currently blocked I think that information needs to be reported publicly and what Authority you feel you're given to muzzle a taxpaying resident's First Amendment right to free
speech happy to pause my time while you answer no Anthony like many things you got this wrong and you make false accusations so let's let's let's straighten this out here no your time just rolls Anthony uh you want to ask
silly questions the clock keeps going okay I'll I'll Rec my time then mayor I'm going to answer answer I'll Emil the question for you so you can't eat into the time that the little you team on this um those who identify as part
ofan see you're getting ready my time thank you elected by taxpayer I'll recla time thank you no you won't councilman Bala councilman sarki councilman zabowski kesy councilwoman Novak do you believe it to be either ethical or legal for a public official to cut off a
resident's ability to email elected leaders I can't pause my time because the mayor will fill a buster it so council president Roberts do you believe it to be either ethical or legal for a public official to cut off a resident's ability to email Le can do that Anthony do what mayor you cannot and you cannot
this is not a cross-examination it's not oh sure but it's public portion so I'll continue on as my right um that see that's the problem with the mayor and this team mayor while you do have while you do not have the legal right to block a resident and while doing so seems to have opened us up yet again to Legal liability as a burrow you do have other
rights even in a weak mayoral system mayor you have the right to call residents dopy you have the right to take Snipes at residents once the public portion has closed even though your comments fall outside of the mayor's portion which comes much earlier in the agenda you have the right to attack residents and tell them that they are unliked or unpopular once public
portion has closed you have the right to say that residents are engaging in theatrics if they criticize you all those rights are yours and those rights also belonged to Vicki Kilpatrick she had the right to do those things and she didn't she didn't insult the public she listened to the public and in doing so she inspired residents to come out and
participate more she invited dissenting voices on her own de to speak to be heard on the record even when they disagreed and even when that descent came from within her own party because true transparency does matter mayor you were quick last meeting to dismiss councilwoman Novak's legitimate inquiries and you invoked the name of
former Democratic party head Tom Pando a man who has been dead for two years but you were right and I'll say this on the record you were right he was tied to a lot of corruption in our burrow corruption that folks in my party have not always taken accountability for but that is over the Democratic party in sville owns those choices and
understands the ways in which it made muddy water for all of us who are looking to make a difference and get more people involved in acknowledging that past we also look forward to be more transparent and welcoming mayor do you or your team have plans to bring back Zoom participation so that veterans and our disabled residents are again
able to participate the Democrats want to do that and hope that you'll work with them do you or your team have any plans to spend a portion of the millions of dollars we've accured towards protecting Open Spaces or green spaces in a burrow that's become overcrowded overbuilt and overrun the Democrats want to work with you on that will you work
with them council president I hope the next time that you get a text from your party chair telling you how to vote on an issue like you did when you changed your vote on the pride flag I hope that that text message is to tell you to vote Yes on historical design for the firehouse that our residents overrode you to save I hope the next text you get
from your party chair is to tell you to vote Yes to Resort Zoom participation for our veterans and disabled Community sville deserves better than this and I hope that interested residents unconnected to the past and its baggage will step up and decide to run to help make this burrow the best that it can be
it is a big important job to be done with care and consideration and for those that understand that I thank them are there any others go ahead I just want to Jim Anthony you know you know how I feel
about these things but that's why I brought it up here because I I read it online and it was a copy of the email it wasn't just somebody said I was live but I'm taking them out their word that this was an anomaly and that Glen has checked into it and I'm hoping that Jim the next
time try it tomorrow see if you're blocked and if anybody is BL blocked for any reason please let me know but that that's why I brought it up it it's it's not right and I'm hoping that's Jim thank you mayor thank you
mayor I don't think this mayor would ever block me intentionally um Jim Robinson Parlin I was involved when I was on the planning board when the warehouses were built and we put that no left turn restriction I heard what uh Mr Duffy
said very simp I think you can do a weight restriction or say trucks no left turn that would resolve that problem and I would suggest you do that I noticed you skipped over uh number nine which is the mayor's report on the agenda the council reports
the mayor supposed to report then mayor you like to report after the public portion is closed so that people can't rebut what you say I think I guess maybe that you're right I don't know um cowardly um Mary I'd like to thank you
for bringing up first that jcpnl bill $24,000 doesn't sound right and bringing up the street lights I appreciate that I appreciate you bringing up the I think uh the administrator said basically that email problem was a glitch is that is
that a way a proper way to rephrase it my email being blocked was a glitch your email was intercepted by the AI that looks for spam it was looked into by the it manager it has been corrected has to how many other people I don't know you
know could you find that out I can find out okay because we'd like to know that uh for some reason I will tell you this I heard and I'm not people up here know they can talk to me confidentially I never betray a confidence the good thing
is you're smirking mayor mayor haven't told the things I know about you so you know that's true um as your Mentor as the guy who ran your first two campaigns never told things about you or whatever but because I don't betray confidences I did hear the
good news is that as a result of that backlash somebody said to another somebody you know what we're really getting beat up over this school bus thing we better we better try and resolve this so Mary I thank you for bringing up that comment and I hope that
some good comes to this and you can act like adults and try and resolve this problem to save God knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars this suit is costing us um because taxpayers are paying it all the board side the
school side know the mayor when you first came in you said you had no interest in solving this that's what my email was about resolving this Schoolboard thing for in everybody's best interest and at the last meeting it was obvious that many of you and mayor it was obvious that you never looked at
the appraisal for the 40 acres I talked to to some Council people who told me they never received that appraisal for the 40 acres adjacent to Kennedy Park um and mayor your comment and was after the public portion had closed so I couldn't
respond was that you couldn't believe that that would be appraised at $590,000 because property on Journey Mill Road is going for a lot more well had you looked at the appraisal you wouldn't have made that
comment wouldn't have made that silly comment absurd comment um but I just want to say this a little bit earlier we agreed to pay $650,000 to widen sidewalks at Kennedy
Park from 4 feet we think to 10 feet now if there's anybody in this Council chamber or this burrow that thinks widening the sidewalks to 10 feet is the biggest issue at Kennedy Park well I'd
like to know who that person is except the parents who have triplets and like to pre ulate them through the park and need a need a wider sidewalk but if we are willing to spend $650,000 and for sidewalks and we have
an appraisal that says that property that 40 acres behind the park is appraise that $590,000 I would very very strongly suggest you enter into serious discussion about
obtaining that property whether you buy it whether you condemn it whether you make some kind of deal you know it's it's a little it's like 39.5 Acres maybe you say to Marco you can have five acres you can build a community center you can build a recreation center you can build
something where you make some money on it sell us the rest for the appraised price because mayor you you know history is going to remember everybody up here for certain
things and you don't want to remember them for the person that put their political guy as their aid or the guy that cut off Zoom or the guy that cut off public speaking or the guy that had officers thing how about you want to be
remembered or the council that let it happen how about you remembered for the council and the mayor members of the governing body added 40 acres to Kennedy Park can't be developed and that might
change the way you are viewed because you're not viewed too well mayor I'll sit down thank you for the extra time okay anyone else being no one else I'll close the public portion make a motion to close the
public uh roll call all in favor I okay so um we have a count of people that watched on the burrow website uh on the zoom it was a total of 10 with four of them being employees on
the YouTube stream uh at the highest the count was 16 do you have an average uh 10 average was 10 okay the other thing is there is a tremendous amount of misinformation and what I usually do
with misinformation for the most part is ignore it uh because its intent is is is not uh it just it just misinformation for the sake of misinformation we did send a communication to Mr Moo about the 40
acres he responded that he had no desire to sell the property at Kennedy Park he owned it for a very long time and and he would like to develop it uh that being said I did run this appraised value by
some local Builders and they pointed out that a Cape Cod on South Edward Street recently sold for $630,000 and that the apprais price uh in Kennedy
Park is is is incorrect in their opinion uh as far as the blocked email stuff happens you know I have blocked Mr Robinson a long time ago from my private cell phone my private email my Facebook
uh and uh as I have said to Mr Robinson he should bring his recommendations and suggestions about the bus depot to the Board of Education because the town did not Sue the Board of Education the Board of Education sued the town we're merely
playing a bit of Def defense that's all and at the end of the day the kids that go to school they belong to all of us so we only want the best and we're trying uh we're trying to get this resolved um the other thing is whenever
whenever accusations of malfeasance are directed towards me I always say to those people that don't have uh much of a life uh to go right to the prosecutor whatever whatever whatever illegal
activity you you think I'm involved with the proper place is the prosecutor and go to the prosecutor so I have yet to hear from the prosecutor uh all that being said um this is H this is as much as I want to
spend on this stuff tonight there was no blocking of email uh By the way when when my um people came in there were two of them um sometimes when a guy gets old he he gets numbers
confused um they walked into 6,000 6,000 unopened email from my predecessor so there essentially was little to no customer service this is a business of
providing Services we provide police fire and first aid we equip them we train them and we hope that they show up uh ready to go and they have never let us down so we have an excellent First Responders
um the other thing is we have about 300 employees and they're all here to provide customer service so we have First Responders we have uh we pick up your garbage we pick up your recyclables we pick up your old couch when you throw it out we plow the snow we have 70 parks
that we take care of we have a public library that is the business that we're in this unfortunately is a throwback uh to years ago pre- interet when this was probably the only live
entertainment in town and you'd get a lot of people that would do what's going on tonight and they throw out a lot of false information a lot of personal character attacks and quite frankly I've watched it for decades and it's really
not worth that much of a rebuttal uh because what they're really looking for is attention good attention bad attention it doesn't matter it's just attention uh it's tiresome and one of the things when I was running uh for reelection this last time
everyone said to me make them talk less there you know when they get up for 20 minutes 25 minutes and expound and pontificate on things uh the people at cille had had enough so that being said
uh I'm going to wish everyone a good night and I'm going to call for an adjournment I'd like to say a couple words mayor if I got a minute go ahead sash I'm relatively new into politics but since I've been in this position I answer a lot of questions daily weekly
from numerous residents in town and to me it's a lot of small fires I take care of a lot of small fires on my own whether I direct them to the proper burrow department head or whatever I have to do to correct it and I always re get back to the people and they're till
they're satisfied uh sometimes I can't solve the problem on my own and I do use the people downstairs and they've been always very polite to me very prompt getting back to me and they do solve my problems and so I do think that's working out in town so uh if you work on
that and they don't call you back or something then call me then I'll see what I can do but I have never had a refusal I've always had good service out call service downstairs for answering questions okay that's all I got say thank you mayor hey is there a motion make motion to adjourn second
roll call all in FA I hi hi opposed thank you everyone