Good evening. Welcome to the 8th meeting of the year. This is June 2nd, 2025. Alyssa, can you please read the uh publication? In compliance with chapter 231 of public law 1975, notice of this meeting to be held with the Criminal Justice Building, 61 Main Street, South
River, has been published in the Home News Tribune on January 5th, 2025. Post on the municipal building bulletin board, the burough website in the front door of the criminal justice building at 61 Main Street, South River. Roll call. Mayor Gindy here. Council Val here. Councilman Santis here. Councilman
Deazinian here. Councilman Janopus here. Council member China here. Council President here. Please stand for the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. Please stay standing for a moment of silence. May be seated. We have nothing agenda session for second reading. There are four that we're going to be reading off. First one is uh the
2025-13 with the sale of EMS equipment which we donated to Miltown Rescue Squad. The second one which is the 20254 bamboo and could you just uh thank you mayor. Uh yeah 202514 it amends your property
maintenance article to regulate plantings in throughout the burough. Uh if you just want me to go on. Yes go ahead. uh 202515. That's an ordinance amending uh chapter 108 entitled animals that just uh includes your animal control officer
in the enforcement of that um of that article. Uh 2025 16 that amends vehicles and traffic concerning Maple Street. And then the first reading there's going to be four as well, two for lead and
two for bond. five. I'm sorry. So, it's actually three. Um, and mayor, if you remember, we have a presentation from the uh company. We're required by state law that multiple family houses have to have a lip paint
inspection. This has no expense to the burrow and we have $25 administrative fee put in that he collects and returns for the burrow. Um, it's a no-brainer. We have to do it. So, Okay, thank you Joe. The other two
being bond. Yeah, we have two bond orders. Yeah, since the budget has been adopted, this is what we usually do the bonds after. We have various public works uh trucks we're going to buy, assault shed, uh police and fire have various equipments, park improvements, uh roads we're doing part of apprentice,
Tyson Cleveland, and then computer equipment we're buying. And then on the water side, it is do a wellhouse and other repairs in the water system. and your last. Uh, sure, Mr. Mayor. Uh, 202521. That's just an or an ordinance
authorizing an agreement pursued to NJSA48 20-1 at SEC uh for 55 main street. Right. Thank you, Melissa. 2025-13. Ordinance 202513. Ordinance of the burrow of South Brook County, Middle Sex
State, New Jersey, authorizing the sale of various EMS equipment not needed for public use accordance with the provisions NJSA 4A12- 21.1 to the Miltown Rescue Squad. Motion wage reading. Second. Motion by
council president, seconded by council. All in favor? I like to open up to the public. First, second, third. Motion to close public. Second. Motion by council president. Second by council. All in
favor? Council discussion. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by council woman. Second. Second by councilman. Counciloman Ballas. Yes. Councilman Santis. Yes. Councilman Demian. Yes. Councilman Janopolis. Yes. Council
Gensky. Yes. Council President Sa. Yes. 2025-14. Ordinance 202514. An ordinance of the burrow of South River County of Middle Sex, state of New Jersey, amending the burough code of the burrow of South River so as to amend chapter 258
entitled property maintenance. Motion to wave to full reading. Second motion by council president. Second by councilinski. All in favor like to open this to the public. Is this for the sir? Second call. Third motion to close
the public. Motion by council president. Second by council. All in favor? Council discussion. Motion seconded by council. Councilman Ball. Councilman.
Council Ballas. Yes. Councilman Santis. Yes. Councilmanian. Yes. Councilman Janikopolis. Yes. Council Ginsky. Yes. Council president. Yes. 202515. Ordinance 202515. An ordinance of the burrow of South River County Middle Sex, state of New Jersey, amending the
burough code of the burrow of South River so as to amend chapter 108 entitled animals. Motion wave in full reading. Second. Motion by council president. Second by councilinsky. All in favor. Like to open this to the public. First call. Second.
Motion to close public. Motion by council president. Second. Second by councilman Kashinski. Council. All in favor? I council discussion motion motion second motion by council councilwoman Dallas second by
council council yes councilantis yes council memberian yes council janna yes council memberky yes council presidenta yes 2025-16 ordinance 202516 an ordinance of the burrow of south river county middle sex
city New Jersey amending the burough code the burrow of First as to amend chapter 193 entitled vehicles and traffic. Motion to wave the full reading. Second motion by council president. Second by council woman. All in favor?
I like to open public. First call. Second call. Motion to close the public. Second motion by council president. Second by council council woman. All in favor? Do I have a council of
discussion? Do I have a motion? A motion of this uh ordinance dies. Hearing none ordinance or we're going to go to ordinance uh first
reading 2025-7. Ordinance 202517, an ordinance of the burrow of South River, county of Middle Sex City, New Jersey, amending the burough code of the burrow of South River so as to amend chapter 258 in title property maintenance. Mayor, I move that the council pass ordinance
2025-17 on its first reading by title only. The clerk be authorized to publish the same as required by law with the second reading and public hearing to be held on June the 23rd from 7 PM uh 2025 but video conference via Zoom.
We're in a council chambers in the criminal justice building 61 Main Street South, New Jersey. Second motion by council president. Second by council. Council council Santis. Yes. Council Dinian. Yes. Council Janopus. Yes.
Council me. Yes. Council President Sila. Yes. Or 2025-18. Ordinance 202518, an ordinance of the burrow of South River County, Middle Sex, State of New Jersey, amending and supplementing chapter 155 of the burough code and title fees.
Mayor, I move that the council pass ordinance 2025-18 on its first reading by title only and the court be authorized to publish the same as required by law for the second reading and public hearing be held at 7 p.m. on June the 23rd, 2025 by video conference via Zoom council
chambers of criminal justice building 61 main street over New Jersey. Second motion by council president second by council council. Yes. Councilman Santos. Yes. Councilman Demian. Yes. Yes. Council Janopus. Yes. Council Gchensky. Yes. Council President Sila. Yes.
2025-9. Ordinance 202519. Bond ordinance providing for various capital improvements and the acquisition of various capital equipment appropriating 1,575,000. Therefore, and authorizing the issuance of
$1,14,682 bonds and notes to finance a portion of the cost thereof authorized and by the barrier in the county of Middle Sex, New Jersey. Mayor move that the council pass ordinance 2025-9 on its first reading by title only and the clerk be authorized to publish the same as required by law for the second
reading and public hearing be held at 7 p.m. on June the 23rd, 2025 by video conference via Zoom during the council chamber of the criminal justice building, 61 Main Street, South, New Jersey. Second. Motion by council president. Seconded by Councilman. Council Ballas. Yes. Councilman Santis.
Yes. Councilman Demian. Yes. Councilman Janopus. Yes. Council member Chenky. Yes. Council President Simul. Yes. 2025-20. Or 202520. bond ordinance providing for improvements to the water treatment storage and distribution system
appropriating $950,000 therefore and authorizing the issuance of $900,000 bonds and notes to finance a portion of the cost thereof authorized in and by the bureau of South Rucker in the county of Middle Sex, New Jersey. Mayor, I move that the council pass ordinance
2025-20 on its first reading by Peron and the clerk be authorized to publish the same as required by law for the second reading and public hearing be held at 7 p.m. on June 23rd, 2025 by video conference via Zoom during the council chambers of the criminal justice building 61 Main Street South, New
Jersey. Motion by council president. Second by council council. Yes. Councilman Santis. Yes. Councilman Zenian. Yes. Councilman Janopolis. Yes. Council member Jensky. Yes. Council President Sula. Yes. 2025-21.
Ordinance 202521. An ordinance of the Burma South River County middle state of New Jersey adopting the financial agreement under NJSA4A 20-1 FSE and authorizing tax exemption and payment in lie of taxes with 55 Main Street subr urban renewal
LLC. Mayor, I move the council pass ordinance 2025-21 on its first reading by title only and the clerk be authorized to publish the same as required by law with a second reading and public hearing to be held at 7 p.m. on June 23rd, 2025 by
video conference via Zoom in the council chambers criminal justice building 61 Main Street in South New Jersey. Second motion by council president. Second by council council. Yes. Council member Santis. Yes. Councilmanian. Yes. Councilman Jopalis. Yes. Council member
Chensky. Yes. Council President Sila. Yes. Now I want to go into the reports. See Justin. Thank you, Mayor. Just a brief update on all the active capital projects. Uh the 2023 and 2024 local aid programs. We've been in touch with the
contractor and he told us that they expect to be back on site in the middle of the third week of June, approximately June 16th. We will notify all the homeowners in the burough of 48 beforehand. Um the 2023 local transportation projects fund that's for
Alward Street, Franklin Street, and Avenue. We submitted plans and documents to the DOT and they're still under review. The 2025 local aid program for Apprentice Avenue, Ty Avenue, and Cleveland Avenue over received the grant and our office submitted a proposal for
professional services. The 2023 electrical substation maintenance. Uh the contractor submitted the final report. We approved it and approved close out change order which is on tonight's agenda. The 2024 program will submit an RFP for same in couple weeks.
The D stormwater system grant application our survey department is currently working on this year portion of the project and they're making progress. And then last, the 2026 local a application is due on July 1st, 2025. Our office submitted a proposal for professional services associated with
the same and the bur will need to select three roads for these uh for the improvements. So we'll work with the public works in the burrow to detect those roads. So all thank you. Thank you for seeing John. Just two things. Uh first
one is there's a resolution for repairs at the Jackson Street pump station that's under co-op agreement. It's over threshold. resolution and then resolution to hire the summer recent. Yes, sir. On uh Saturday, June 28th, we're having our shred event from 9:00
a.m. to 12 down at the DPW yard. So, bring your stuff down and have a shred. I think we're ready to go. Is there a limit on how many they can bring to the shred? Because I know No, this is our own. It's not
alternative county. So, y fire chief. Thank you, mayor. You'll see resolution 179, which is asking for authorization for two fund drives for the fire department, one in June and one in July. That's all I have. Anything for Andrew? I have nothing tonight.
Alissa, uh just that the primary election will be on June 10th. Uh early voting starts on June 3rd to June 8th. Uh Tuesday through Saturday it's going to be from 10 to 8 and Sunday is going to be 10 to 6 and the closest location to us would be uh the East Brunswick
Community Center or the Serville Senior Center to Earlyville. And that's it. Thank you. Mayor, thank you. I have a couple of updates. First of all, we're down to the last 10% of the water meter project. I can only urge the residents who haven't
put had their meters changed out. Please do because the next step would be that you would receive a summon to go to court because we do have an ordinance that says we're entitled to access to the uh meters to get this done. So we're down to like I said less than
10%. Uh the next thing is the boundary project is on schedule. As you can see the new fence is up. All the equipment is in. It's almost completed unwiring and we'll be doing testing in the next couple of weeks. We'll be ready for July 1st to add the additional battery
equipment onto the uh project. And the uh next thing I have is we had a meeting on the water main project. Uh I can report that um most of the survey been done. They're going to finish the rest of the survey in July. The test kit
excavations are 40% complete. Um they were going out today to examine all the test kits. Again, they're having some settling due to all the rain, so they'll add more potholes. Um, on the bill list today is a check for $5,000 to the I
bank for the application. We're almost in the process of uh getting that to the I bank and design is 50% done and that is all we have on the water bank project
and on the resolutions um resolution 175 is authorizing execution of software product that's software for the code enforcement officer that's going to allow her to use a tablet instead of having to handwrite everything and bring us up to the 21st
century with that. Um the next one is authorizing the award of a contract LE environmental that's for the lead testing. Um Joe went over the pumping services one and the other one is 187.
We are authorizing execution of professional services agreement with Ruters. We are required to have an employee assistance program. The new GIF we belong to does not pay for that. So the burrow is required to pay for that uh just like the the testing for CDL
drivers. That's it. Thank you. I just wanted to bring up Is there any update on what's happening with the property because I'm getting Yeah, I know. And and believe we have issued multiple substances and they don't show up in
court and it's not the court basically says it has to be a life safety issue for them to issue a bench warrant. But we're just at the point where we're issuing summones. um don't really want to get the borrow
to to take care of it because then it's going to be a lean and the person own that property already and not paying taxes on some of the other properties you own. We know about it. We were very upset the condition it was for parade and all
that. Okay. What we can do with great southern people living behind also and stops starting to grow into their yards. I agree. All right. Um, Councilman Kushinsky.
Thank you, Mayor. Uh, the Office on aging actually this, uh, see Monday, June 30th, we're going to have C Country Line event. So that event is uh $1 recommended for a
contribution and everything too. Where it's going to be, I'm not sure. Uh I think it may be at 55 depending on how many people they have uh coming. The uh New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission mobile unit is fully booked.
There's nothing. Uh I believe they are going to try to see if they can get another uh sign up, but uh right now the unit that they have is uh totally filled. There is a free bone in density screening that's coming to the office on
aging. That will be on June 19th. Uh you have to schedule for an appointment and transportation is available and you must sign up uh sign up to Jan today. Let's see. Of course, DPW said they are going to have
a risk extra paper shred. That's coming Saturday on June 28th from 9 to 12. And that's the township. And the office on aging is making a funds available for members who qualify for the requirement of assistance. And this is for the New Jersey property tax credit program
update. Uh there's a lot of features that uh some of the people don't understand, but this includes everything with the uh PTR and the anchor program and also the C3. Uh so if you have any questions or or uh any
uh concerns about the matter and everything too and you want to speak to someone, make an appointment with the office on aging. Uh, and that phone number is 732572340. Was that that's all I have there. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Yeah. Well, and actually,
she just I wanted to thank Teresa Hutcherson and the members of the Cultural Arts and Heritage Commission on the terrific job you did on planning and coordinating the Memorial Day parade. It was a great turnout by the people of South River cheering us on and and and
everything really was nice. I also want to thank the police and fire department, the BFW, the American Legion, all the organizations that participated and the marching bands. Um, and again, thank you to the town who came out. It it made it very special that we could remember all
the fallen heroes in in town. And again, thank you and your team did a great job. And for the library, um the library summer reading kickoff is June 24th. The theme for summer reading is color your world. They are also planning some
events such as Eyes of the Wild, Ginger Jew, and a bubble party. They are also teaming up with Ruckers Behavioral Health for five programs which are all free including tie-dye and sensory power hour. Again, these go to their website
and and find out all the wonderful programs they have. and their Junth program will be on June 17th at 6:30 p.m. at the library. That's all I have. Council, thank you, Mayor. Um, I echo
what Ghana says about the uh the parade and all the organizations that uh put that together. It was a a very fun day and very well organized. um working with Adam on the website of the burrow. You
will now notice that um there is a new tab where if you click on it, it has the current info on burough projects, projects that we're currently working on like roads to uh be paved, park improvements, and some other areas. Um
the tab is at the top of the website and it's called projects blog. It'll be updated as quickly as possible with when status changes to these projects. This will allow residents to get a quick update on current burough projects and
we will uh put additions to it. It's something that's just not what's there. It's the only thing that'll be there in the future. It'll be a work in progress um to give the residents an update of uh all the different areas as best as we can um to keep them up on the current
status. And that's all we have here. Thank you, Councilman Des. Board of Education update. On May 22nd, I attended the school curriculum fair. All school buildings utilized to showcase programs being offered and student projects and artwork were on
display. Also included were live performances and a petting zoo at Denny Stadium. The event was very well organized and a great representation of the board of education's continued commitment to our children. The event was well attended despite the rainy weather. That same night at the monthly
board of ed meeting was the swearing of a new board member Uch Anudoway who is taking over the vacated term. So it'll be up for election for the two-year term at the end of the year. High school graduation is scheduled for Thursday, June 19th on the football field at 6 pm weather permitting. And the next public
board of ed meeting is Monday, June 16th at 7 p.m. in high school tournament. For the recreation advisory board, uh Pop Warner football and cheer registration is currently open. football for ages 5 through 13 and cheer for ages three through 14 and that is your age as of
July 31st of 2025. You can visit the burough website for more details to register. Go to www.sattleoverj.org click departments then parks and recreation and you'll see a link to enroll. If you have any issue online you can call the office at
73254412. The next recreation advisory board meeting will be next Tuesday, June 10th at 6:30 p.m. at 55 Re Street and residents are welcome and encouraged to attend. Thanks. Thank you, Councilman Jas. Yes, Mayor. Um last month I
attended the uh water resource association meeting in uh New Brunswick and uh we talked about the uh water runoff and what the county is doing for rainwater runoff management. And during the meeting they made us aware that
there will be a uh oh something for free that people in Middle Sex County can go to the lower rare watershed partnership. It's 101 Raron Avenue in Highland Park and they do free boat building every Wednesday in
June and July from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. That's every Wednesday. So if you want that's a Middle Sex County thing. And then also just in case anyone missed it, there was a fishing derby here at Dale East Pond this last weekend. And uh if you
attended, I heard it was we had pretty good weather. the rain didn't come. So, it was well attended and the pond is stocked. So, if you're into fishing, you know, we have a fish here in town that you could do that. And the environmental
uh and shade commission is having a meeting this uh is it this coming Thursday, June 5th, down at uh 48 Washington, if anyone wants to attend. It's a public meeting. That's all I have here. Thank you, Council President.
Thank you, Mayor. Um, real quick again, the EDC economic development, um, they had their get together. Um, lot some businesses did show up. I was very disappointed that many of the businesses in town didn't show up. There was a lot
of very useful information given out that night, and it's a shame because it can definitely help the businesses in town with grants and low interest loans. So again, when the EDC has this and the state is there, please come to it. It's
going to benefit you as a business in town. We have businesses opening up that were overwhelmed about this information. They loved it and just trying to get it out to every business in town. So please get stay alert. Everything's the
invitations are mailed out to each business in town. So stay alert on that. Thank you. I'll hold mine. I would like to open it to the public. You got five minutes. Please state your name and your
address. Good evening. Teresa Hutchinson, 38 Virginia Street. Uh I thank you for the thank yous for the parade. I chair Cultural Arts and Heritage Commission. We have a a whole group of people working on this parade the day
after of the previous parade and a lot of people are in this this room right now will help us and uh I just want to give a shout out to everybody um of course cultural arts uh on on my commission
along with me as our vice chair Peter Barner. We also have our members Stephanie Finley, um our fire chief Smith, we have Robin Pac, we have um uh Randy Lundy and um a couple of other
folks uh but the the folks I just mentioned were the folks that worked real hard on this parade, the burough administration works real hard with us and as I said, they're in this room right now and u just a big thank Thank
you to everybody. I wanted to also thank real quickly our sponsors uh for supporting us and they are this year Cyclan unlimited on William Street, GNS Lawn
Service on Whitehead, the Gold Star and Whitehead, New Quality Construction on Grove, Mil Pipeline. Uh their main office is in Indianapolis. um the Portuguese club, we're expecting a donation from them, the Portuguese
fisherman and T- Raiden trucking. Just want to thank all the sponsors and again it couldn't happen without this burrow pitching in and helping us. So, just a big thank you to everybody and again, thank you for respecting our fallen heroes. That's
really what what the 26 was all about. Thank you. Thank you. My name is Darren Gr. I live at 20 and my big concern now is the closing of Collins Drive into
Montasol. It's a disaster. The main thing for us is the four reasons I want to talk about. Safety, cost, time, and the environment. Safety. The nearest fire truck is the
summit fire truck. It's coming from the west. It adds up to one mile of extra driving. That's two minute. That's 2 minutes at 30 miles an hour. The ambulance service, Robert Wood Johnson, is the uh township provider.
They come from New Brunswick and they uh coming from 18. They're coming from the west. That adds two heads to it. This is unacceptable. People die in less than two minutes. Okay. And then I started
looking at what my cost was. My direct cost for disclosing is about $28 a year. And I said, "Well, let me uh think a little bit more and ask my neighbors." So I wound up asking 39
people representing 28 households. Everybody wants that street open. Two-way. Only one person came out and said one two-way or no way. That's the only no that I got out of anybody. So
that's a 100%. We got 300. We got 150 houses, 300 cars. Luckily, there are 300 plus cars in if you take 75 trips a
day using that street 365 days a year, you wind up with 27,300 trips a year or roughly 13 over 13,500 miles. Put it
blankly, that's over 3,000 pounds of gas which is going to hit the environment. I don't know how much carbon dioxide that makes but if you ask a asthma had suffered from asthma I'm sorry I'm getting late I know this past but everybody was complacent
and basically uh cost if you have uh 15 uh 70 cents a mile which I don't know if you could operate your car maybe about 20 cars that you can operate at 70
cents a mile appreciation should know that. You know, it's over $9,000 we spent in the kick in the pances. We're spending $9,000 for a street that we paid for when we bought the houses. I think that's what do you call that?
Boond $9,000 for a street that was closed to us. That's just one way time I calculated something like about 450
hours. And if you uh put dollar amount that's over $10,000 if you put a dollar amount that's like over $19,000 $25 taxes to keep you in the house. These are all four bedroomedroom twocar garage
houses. So then I'll also look at the way it was you had 300 ft of street the piece of [Music] colum. You know, if I told you, oh, it's a it's a one-way street, but it's a
two-way street. Everybody looks at you. That's an oxymoron to say the least. That's a complicous. My solution was you make drive all one way, which is not the perfect way because you're going to get a lot of complaints.
you're still going to get complaints, but the cheapest benefit and the cheapest way to go is to have that open to two-way traffic. That'll save us over $18,000 of direct uh cost to
us. There'll be a slight cost to the residents on drive, 4th Avenue, Fifth Avenue Grant. I estimate something like maybe 10 hours of
time waiting in your driveway for a car pass and that's about all I have question. We'll have to get Let me ask you time is up but I'm going to leave you this little thought. When I did my homework on Colin Drive, the original
plans show Colin Drive being closed. The only reason it was open was during the actual construction. So after the construction was completed, Colin Drive was left open when it should have been closed on the original plans. So that
was never supposed to be open ever. Well, kind of the safety. So I'm happy you brought up the safety. So, in literally less than two months worth of time, I have well over 300 videos showing people doing one way and I heard I have two videos of people
going both ways and going head on. So, listen, I know what your safety is. I'm not going to get into it because I had this huge argument with Monttoella Way, Charter Drive, all that area. But here's where my problem is. And you expect that road to be a one way and you have kids playing on Colin Drive and you have a
car coming the opposite way with no regards to the people. There's my safety. My safety goes with the kids and their environment and their residents. So I understand what you're saying, but unfortunately it does not pan out. And just for the record, every single time we do get a fire call, our fire
firefighters, the first call, 98% I did my uh work on it was coming out of George, sorry, Jackson Street before Summit even showed up. So that means ladder tower and reliable would show up to a call first before Summit even
showed up. What about the ambulance? Ambulance has 34 seconds less. 34 seconds based on Robert Wood Johnson's uh stats. How do you How do you do 34 seconds? Because I because when we called up when we decided we're
gonna chase this concept of shutting down college, we went to emergency management first and asked will this be a problem? So I understand where your concern is, but unfortunately I have to worry about the residents is my first priority. I understand where your concern is,
but you got 500 people in Hari and they were thrown under the bus for your safety to us. The road was never supposed to be open period. Why did they build it? I mean, if the reason they built it for some reason they they used it for a No, sorry. I got
this. They used it for a service road only. It wasn't supposed to be open. I mean, Period. Period. Yeah, that should have put a house on it. I mean, that was this was claimed by the planning board in there. And the planning board actually $50,000
planning board actually says it's a service road and it's supposed to be closed. I agree with you, but unfortunately it cannot even be a two-way road because of you have a resident's house and you have uh what we call trees coming left side of the common drive. So unfortunately, I
understand your concern. But what happened was everybody got so used to something that was wrong. That's where the problem started. So I understand your concern. I I take it. I I get it. It's a convenience rather than the word
safety. If I could fix the problem, I would. But unfortunately, it cannot be fixed. I'm sorry, sir. Like I I agree with you. It can be fixed. Like I said, if it could be fixed, I would. But it cannot well they create
the uh the basically it's a big boondog who paid for the road. You didn't pay for the road. Sure you did. No actually you didn't say who paid for the road. The builder paid for the road. And who paid for the building? He paid for a service road that was supposed to be
closed. It's on the plans. I researched it before I decided to pull this trip off. I know where you're coming from. Everyone got used to something that was wrong in the 34 seconds that Robert with Josh. I don't know how you could do a mile.
That's over 120 miles an hour. Some place 120 miles an hour in the street to do one mile. All right. I really, Mr. I really understand. I appreciate. Thank you. Anyone else for Hello, council mayor. Um, my name is Ed
Brothers. I live at 64 Whitehead Avenue. I'm also the co-owner of Nurture Leaves. Uh I think the council president mentioned about businesses. So actually my subject is to touch a little bit upon this. Um it's actually about another committee, but I do want to share it
publicly with my experience as uh a resident trying to open a business here in South York. So um really want to just say I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you guys today. Um, just to give you a little
background, uh, I submitted my application, went to the TRC meeting, got feedback there. Out of the meeting, we were supposed to have a walk through the property. We followed up various times. My attorney, uh, my architect,
also someone from the municipality followed up trying to get this scheduled, and we heard no responses from all. So to me, I just want to make sure I'm more on record that I'm doing everything I can by following up, but I also need the borrow to do its part and
follow up just to acknowledge something's going on uh going on because before when I reached out to Andrea, she's done that's a perfect job just getting back to me saying, "Hey, I'll get back to you next week." But we have no response and so we don't know actually what's being required or what's
being asked of our leaves. Um, so that's a concern to me. Basically, I had something. We were supposed to be scheduled for tomorrow to be part of TRC, but I was informed that they're not on it. But then when I ask uh what were
the requirements, what are they looking for? No one can tell me. So, it makes it very difficult for me to action items when I don't know what items are required. I'm sorry, cut you off. wasn't last year or seen it and they gave you a bunch of
questions and requirements sat in there. And what was the request from Bruce? Unfortunately, I don't recall. I know there's quite a few things, right? The first like the side door, the back, the paving, the security, the fence, the
dumpsters. I recall certain things, right? And after that because people were not familiar with the location because they were saying parts weren't paid other parts were because no one has actually been to the site because there actually has been pavement to the front and there's
actually been work done on the side because of the construction. That was why Bruce had suggested that everyone do a walk through which we were more than happy to do to understand exactly because the first thing she mentioned was the lighting. They did talk about lighting when we found out the city owned the lighting then it became
pavement then it became a tree. So my question to Todd because he was raising this what is it exactly do they want because it went from lighting then I heard he's not wanting lighting also there was confusion what was being told to my attorney versus the architect. So
I would just like follow up to understand if the meeting is actually going to happen the walkth through because that was a request from the town. Well, I will reach out to you tomorrow and I'll find out exactly what's going on as well. Yeah. Yeah. I I appreciate it. It's just communication that way, you know, I think active on
it. But, you know, I think timely responses are also appropriate later. But, just wanted to share that with the town my experience. So, we're trying to make it easier for business to open. This is an experience of a resident that I've been submitting everything you guys
have requested on a timely basis and I don't get a response from from the bureau. You'll hear from me 4430. So, I was looking through the agenda and I noticed that the 45 units park the complex next
door giving them 30-year tax abatement, which made me think you're also going to probably give away the street parking for the permits. And then I started thinking like it was short a bunch of parking spots so you sold them
spots in the municipal law which my understanding is a philosophy for u like there are 64 permit spots in the lot and the last time I got an official count of how many permits were
issued there was 161 permits issued. So that's a lot. That's well over 100%. So then I remembered there's a uh there's a main street parking strategy that was developed by our planner and
adopted by the plan board and adopted by the council. And I went down there and I looked at it. There's a few things in here that just caught my attention. I want to state them and then ask a couple questions afterwards. Uh so there's a
section here that says to ensure when parking permits are sold to a purchaser that the parking utility has a policy the policy in place to verify that a realistic opportunity for parking is available in a municipal
park. Then another section that's titled principles to guide burough leaders in making decisions on parking issues. says the parking utility should adopt a permit limit policy to
guide the number of parking permits sold relative to the number of parking spaces available. This should be between one space to 1.7% or one space to 2% ratio depending on the composition of permit
purchases. So, we're well above that, unless of course there's been some sort of change to the issue. One of my concerns is I've been to uh when I was on the zoning board, a couple of these issues came up and it seemed as though
the boards were unaware of how many permits were issued in the per in the parking lot for how many spots were available. And I was recently at the land use board when they approved uh this 45 unit parking next door that they're getting
into tax evated to. And they also seem to be unaware that the parking lot is pretty full that they went ahead and issued parking permits for and I know with more development coming in.
Uh, I'm concerned that I won't be able to find a parking spot someday when I come to work because there's going to be just permits issued like crazy on top of the people that park there illegally and
uh, which should be we're going to get there. So my thing is uh does the burrow have a policy to verify that a realistic opportunity for parking is built? And if you do have a
policy, I was wondering how I could get a copy there to review because I'm sure there must be a policy. I mean this this is from back in 2018. So by now we should have had a policy. Do you have a
policy? Absolutely. Also, uh we should be a permit policy about the amount of permits issued. And the reason I'm asking the council is because I don't
have any problems with the the professionals. You guys are the policy makers. Everything comes down from here. And uh I'm sure they're not just willy-nilly. I mean came down from the council and said hey here's the policy
we want to follow. I have no doubt that follow the policy you guys have. So I'm concerned that maybe there isn't a policy that maybe you're not providing guidance to the land use boards when these sort of
issues come up. I mean the land use board should have guidance from the council so that when they issue ordinance of variances for parking for these buildings that they're not going to
interfere with the existing businesses that are here because we need to build from what we have. We don't want to just out with the old in with the new, right? We don't want to just hey we hate these old buildings. We hate the old businesses. got a little excited that
new people would come here. So that's my concern. I'd like to see if we have these policies. I'd like to, you know, if I had to put an open request, I'm sure, right? So like I say, come from
you guys, your policy makers. Maybe not this particular council, but if the other councils haven't done it, uh, I'd like to see you guys do it because you just can't keep going on the way it is. I mean, if you're downtown, it's pretty bad out here. Some people
have experienced it. I've shown it to you. And one last thing, I just you just take the parking downtown seriously. Why are they working on? Okay. because I have some other statistics about the amount of annual
sales the parking spot generates for the businesses. So you take it serious or more serious. I appreciate it. Thank you. Anyone else for public close
call? Second call. Motion to close public. Second motion by council president. Second by councilman Kashinski. All in favor? I have nothing from Mariel appointments consent resolutions. Whereas resolution 202501 authorizes the
bureau council to utilize a consent agenda to adopt various resolutions of a routine and non-controversial nature at one time. Now therefore be it is hereby result of the below list of resolutions are hereby adopted by the burough council and whole as of the same or individually acted upon. Consent
resolutions 2025 169 to 2025 187 169 authorizing the requisition of funds for payment to the custodian of the school monies 170 approval of a special events permit to the Portuguese club for an event to be held on June 725 171 authorizing fireworks display by
South Recreation on August 22nd 2025 172 authorized 2025 salaries of certain employees and officials 173 Resolution Appointing Parrot 40 as full-time dispatcher. 174. Appointment of
recreation department positions. 175. Authorizing execution of a software product agreement. 176. Authorizing the award of a contract with Lou Environmental Services LLC. 177. Authorizing the purchase of a vehicle for the Office of Emergency
Management. 178. Granting renewal to ABC licenses for the 2526 license year. 179. Authorizing the Southern River Fire Department to conduct a boot drive. 180 authorized certain utility refunds. 181. Authorizing a purchasing contract with pumping services
incorporated. 182. Authorizing permanent status for a police dispatcher. 183. Accept May 5th, 2025 regular and executive session minutes. 184. Authorize the bills and claims list. 185. Authorizing pay estimate number three and close out change order
for Willlet Avenue substation. 186. Approval of a special events permit to the Dur Arkham School for an event to be held on June 6, 2025 187 authorizing the execution of a professional services agreement with Ruckers. What is a motion resolution? Motion by
council. Second. Second by council. Council Ballas. Yes. Councilman Desantis. Yes. Councilman Deenian. Yes. Councilman Janopoulos. Yes. Council Gchensky. Yes. Council President Sila. Yes. the extension from 179 and
184 25-00486 01275 and 01413 council comments start with council I am tonight Council dinner.
Thank you, Mayor. Um, St. Pen Paul Church, Orthodox Church on Wed Avenue. We'll be having a spaghetti dinner along with an Elvis impersonator show on Saturday, July 12th. Dinner starts at 700 p.m. Show starts
at Dinner starts at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7:30 in the Churchill on Jeffrey Avenue. Uh tickets are $35 and it's BYOP. Um and you can also get your dinner to go and not see the show.
That's cost is $20. And you can visit the church's website, St. Peter and Paul. Um has a website that it's on there or you can contact contact myself additional information and we'll take it. That's
all I have. Thank you. council. Uh, this Saturday will be the Portuguese flag raising that usually starts. Do they do that at 10 or they start at 11? It starts at 11. So, I guess rain or shine. It's the Saturday. The gazebo
side for the flag is um to all of you up here. Happy Father's Day. Flag Day is the 14th. Don't don't forget to, you know, raise your flag with pride. The first day of summer's coming up, so be careful. The children are
really busy on their little scooters. Yeah, today got a little too close because they just go down the middle of the street and I'm afraid of them. They really have to be careful. You have to be careful with that. The bicycles,
scooters, whatever they can zip around town, they will. So, just be careful. And a reminder, please curve your animals. I live up by the school. The children don't appreciate when they get out of their cars. Neither do their
parents that the kids step in whatever's left on their way to school. So, I guess they have that souvenir for the whole day. So, just there's just curve your dogs. It's not just by the school. I think it's pretty much every And we do
have a leash lawn out, correct? many many loose dolls in this town. So this is there is a leash law now. So you can't find you're not having to draw that leash. There's no
How long is the leash? I don't know how long. That's a good question. Oh, you say you're talking about a retractable one or just how far can go? I I don't know what it is. I don't think I think it's just a leash. Off the top of my head, I do not know what your word
says, but we can look that up and send it to you. Just be careful, right? Thank you, Council Member. Thank you, Mayor. Uh first of I'd like to thank all our public service workers police fire especially our DPW
probably Johnson and I'd also like to thank the town for the Memorial Day parade many of the veterans and everything like that too. The most important part of the day is in the morning when we pay tribute to those who have gone before us. Also, if any of the
families has a veteran and their marker is damaged in some way or other, please contact the BFW or the American Legion and we'll give you a replacement for your loved one. Um, happy Father's Day coming up. Uh, with
that, watch out for the kids. Weather's getting warmer for sure. And you all take care. Thank you. President, just uh to reiterate, the kids are out. They're on the scooters. They're on the bicycles. Just please
stay alert. Do not text on the phone while you're trying to drive. Keep your eyes on the road and watch out for the kids. They're coming right down the middle of the streets. They're not stopping in intersections. Uh it's a little crazy.
So, please be careful. All right. So, first of all, I want to thank uh fire chief uh Bill Smith for bringing this to my attention. This Thursday, June 5th, at the library between 6:30 and 7:30, the fire
prevention poster artwork is going to be displayed. Please come out and support the kids that put up a very nice art. I've from what I'm being told it's they went over and beyond. So, please come out to the library this Thursday, 6:30 and 7:30.
I'd also like to welcome a new business that uh me and council president and myself had the opportunity to do the ribbon cutting this uh Saturday which is located on Ferry Street which is called Sacred Ink the Gallery although it's a tattoo par they also do art the art
inside was so remarkable murals the paintings you need to go and look at this place um you don't believe it but it's right here in your own backyard so please support the uh new business um enforcement. They are now going out on
the weekends. Take care of your house. Cut your grass. Don't do anything without a permit. They're going to get caught. It's not going to be easy. It's not going to be fun. And there not going to be nice stuff. So, do the right
thing. You know, go to the town, do what you have to do in your police department. This weekend I had probably a good half a dozen calls all on the same exact thing. Over parking, loud music, uh
people yelling. Don't hide behind the phone for social media. Call the police department as many times as you have to call. Whether it's during the day or if it's at night, there is a noise awareness. There is proper parking.
Please call the police. They're there for you regardless of how many times it is. You're not bothering them. They may have other calls. They are going to come out. They're going to come. They're going to do what they have to do. Um we recently got a grant possibly
of $200,000 which is going to be given to or it's going to be going to the Veterans Park which is going to give us a new football field in Blue. So, we're looking forward to another grant hopefully var I'm
sorry. So, look out for that. Another grant that this administration has got. June 10th is the primary. Every vote counts. Please support. Go out, find your polling area, cast your
vote. And uh last, happy Father's Day to all. I know it's not easy and always watch out for those kids. Uh they're they're out now scooters, skateboards, running bicycles. You never know when they're going to jump out in the middle of the
street. So please be aware, drive the speed limit if possible, even drive slower. I appreciate it. We have a motion to adjourn. Second. Motion by Councilwoman Dallas, second by Counciloman. All in favor?