e e e e e 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 the 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 flag I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for stands
one nation God indivisible with and 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 Ki Mike say here here Novak here Roberts here sari here zabowski council
president um 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 valala yes
kisi yes Novak yes tarski yes zabowski yes at this time I'm going to ask the governing Bonnie uh to go up to the rail and we would ask the contingent of firemen uh to come forward as we are our
honoring seral hero fire captain Nick luchano a president Park this one that don't work okay come come closer
mik 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 Sarahville would like to acknowledge president Park's 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 firef Fighters pinned from a collapsed wall against the car without hesitation Captain luchano immediately leaped into
action with the help of a member from the County Fire Marshal'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 CR a crucial role in ensuring the safety of his fellow firefighters and he is truly
deserving of commendation for his heroic efforts thanks 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 I'm 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 said 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 seral fire captain so we welcome you we honor you and we thank you appreciate it GE you want I just wanted to say a couple words that commanding officers of the
department this is like the worst nightmare when we hear a Mayday call go out and I'm just grateful that Nick was there in the time on the made a call I just command you you know I I always like a 50y year
man let me CM up Rich kosmoski has served 50 years as a volunteer in the seral fire department Rich you're you're not at a loss of word whether spoken or written so let tonight not be the first time you are I don't think you got
enough time give a tap on the 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 it okay all right I'll have this much you'll have this much as it should be
all right gentle and and Ladies of the cable fire department we we stand with all due respect and all our thanks 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 objections that'll come G have to I don't you can't do it that way well
she's just gonna have to slow down Sharon ruson Rus Robin Golem go 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 aarin w and our student rep Giana rovic rovic
rovic okay and that that would be all of the um appointments for tonight okay uh uh is there a second roll call Council person's Roberts yes ala yes Ki yes Novak yes
sari yes zabowski yes with that we'll go to all business y public hearing on ordinance number 6-25 bur of saille County of middlex ordinance authorizing title 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 cille
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 other 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 sari yes ala yes poliisi yes Novak yes Roberts zabowski yes
introduction of the following ordinances number 8-25 an 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 ordinance be approved on first reading
advertised according to law and a public hearing be held at 3:10 2025 second roll call Council person's Bala yes polii yes Novak yes Roberts senari yes zabowski ordinance number 9-25 and ordinance supplementing and amending ordinance
number 3-24 fixing the salaries of certain burrow 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 at 310 2025 second roll call Council person's Bala yes polii yes
Novak yes Roberts yes senari 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 Bailey 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's a pathway Trail means of pedestrian conveyance it's the concrete that's going goes around both Lakes 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 300 $25,000 and it's a matching Grant so it conceivably cost $650,000 to widen you call them Trails the sidewalks at Kennedy 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 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 it'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 or these people movers or these yellow brick roads $650,000 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 acres to extend the park or just J 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 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 we're 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 council 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 202562 I'm going to say adex Bill yes on all their items poliisi 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 I'm sorry um I noticed that there's no bill this month for jaffy communications well I guess he didn't send it in time okay um it there's a a bill here for
uh Jock's catering from Middletown for a February meeting meeting do we know what meeting I think that's Office on Aging Office on Aging okay thank you and um there's also um $2,751 Aid can I assume that that's
somehow a mistake go ahead that's actually being looked at we noticed a major anomaly in 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 Mary yes zabowski yes uh a motion to accept the
correspondence as listed so moved roll call Council person's Roberts yes Bala yes kisi yes Novak yes narski yes Zi mayor 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 of 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 uh schedule an appointment which are from um 9:00 a to 12:00 noon for an inperson
I just have to call the sener for that uh hopefully we won't have any more uh uh CL 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 and Sarah uh were uh had meetings but those meetings are 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 U feeding one of our volunteers firemen 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 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 plumacher report from the Sarahville Police Department the department continues to address concerns regarding track to trailer parking on kenned 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 Braille is Rec searching enhancements to the overnight truck parking ordinance and will soon provide recommendation to the council for strictor 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 Suspicion ious
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 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 farman 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 on Main Street in 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 particularly 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 cudos 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 exactly 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
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 a left out of that street and 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 there are some missing signs they're getting replaced and 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 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 yes 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 poll 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 par 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 he retired we 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 please you can email it to
me you don't have 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 with 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's they send an email to the town to the mayor and Council and and uh they're told that their emails are blocked Bary I assume you're talking
about there was a statement made by your Mentor Jim Robinson he not my he was blocked yes 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 I I mean me Lord knows we're involved in enough lawsuits so you know we would 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 its equipment over to the new poll 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 CU 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 are sewer environmental councilman sonari thank you mayor uh the Water and Sewer the water department produced 150 million gallons of portable water that was used in the month of
January th 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 vales 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 a do do hernal 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 to do the 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 and the water andore 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 years 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 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 U multiple committees and commissions they've all gotten now um contact information across
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 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 cents um application for a place to place transfer transfer received from maruo 2 um to place his pocket license at uh right across the street here at one hag Street at truly Thai next item and for
recreation application for a special event receiv 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 that Kennedy Park from 7:00 a.m. 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 effective April 1st 2025 any objection next item authorization to appoint Jenna
Huff as clerk one in the wood 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 a project be closed out and a net change order with a reduction be approved that's all I have thank you okay borrow attorney uh nothing this evening mayor thank you okay this time we going to open the public portion for questions or comments on any and all
issues Ken thank you mayor kenel sheski seral several meetings ago after the public portion was close 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 have 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 six 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 wreck department on a wck board but nobody seems to know this guy so I don't know where that went who went to who but we got some background
information on Kennedy O'Brien it seemed me had been a beach bomb for years in California he also told me that by the way that it's independent 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 you he was rejected numerous times out there like one two 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 well we talking
about elections I haven't been involved in an election in 30 years mean 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 Brian 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 just something recently let's look at the firehouse
next door the referendum the referendum whose idea it was it was Kennedy O'Brian'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 two to one 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 Servo hide the 100 million tax giv way that he did and he was brought all these people in for hide the fact that there's no questions asked at Council me no questions answered which of course most people would think that
that talks about corruption they don't want to answer questions because they're hiding things uh and how about I think Mary had 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 Meritt Avenue I have your answer Mary on uh Kennedy Drive I owned 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 Sero and I de think Dave handled it Jay
I you know but is but I sold the prop I didn't get that far with the property I sold it to Gillette and I don't know what happened to the left turn lane but but it was approved not
2001 okay so okay thank thank you thank you mayor thanks M Anthony good evening mayor uh Anthony spado Washington Road U 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 69-year old resident mayor he is the one who AI must 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 burrow 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 uh 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 reports to be acting within the authority a public official runs a foul of the first amendment in blocking a person I think the public is 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 is 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 re my time then may I'm going to
answer I'll email the question for you so you can't time that the little team on this um those who identify as part of o'ri Team you're getting ready fora my time May thank you elected by taxpayer I'll reclaim my time thank you no you won't councilman balka
councilman sarki councilman zabowski kesi councilwoman Novak do you believe it to be either ethical or legal for a public official to cut off a resident ability to email elected leaders I can't pause my time because the mayor will fill a buster it so council president Roberts you believe it to be either ethical or legal for a public official
to cut off a resident's ability to email leaders canot do that Anthony cannot do what may 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 Dopey 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 Vicky Kilpatrick she had the right to do those things and she didn't she didn't insult the public she listen to the public and in doing so she inspired residents to come out and participate more she invited dissenting voices on her 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 acred 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 designation 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 Jim go ahead I just want to Jim um 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 wrong but I'm taking them at 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 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 simply 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's you're right I don't know um cowardly um Mary I'd like to thank you for bringing up first that jcpnl bill $244,000 doesn't sound
right and bringing up the street lights I appreciate that I appreciate you're 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
you can find out okay because we'd like to know that uh for some reason I will tell you this I heard it 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 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 my email was about resolving this school board 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 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 have you looked at the appraisal you wouldn't have made that
comment you 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 said Kennedy
Park from 4 feet we think to 10 ft 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 appraised that $590,000 I would 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 May 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 than how about you want to be
remembered or the council that let it happen how about you rem remembered for the council and the mayor members of the Gover added 40 acres to Kennedy Park so it 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 it's intent is is is not uh it just it's just misinformation for the sake of this information 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's 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 Edwards 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 as I have said to Mr Robinson he should bring his recommend ation 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 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 um all that being said um this is uh 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 and 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- internet when this was probably the only live
entertainment in town and you 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 attenion 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 they you know when they get up for 20 minutes 25 minutes and expound and pontificate on things uh the people at sville had had enough so that being
said uh I'm going to wish everyone a good night and I'm gonna 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 of the call service downstairs for answering questions okay that's all I got to say thank you mayor hey is there a motion make motion to adjourn second
roll call all in favor I