Welcome to the 10th meeting of the year. Today is July 2020 20 July 21st 2025. Alissa, can you please read the publication? In compliance with chapter 231, public law 1975 notices to be held at the criminal justice building 61 Main
Street, South River, has been published in the Homes Tribune on January 5th, 2025. posted on municipal building bulletin board, the burough website, the front door of the criminal justice building at 61 Main Street, South River. Mayor Vindy here. Counciloman Ballas here.
Councilman Santis here. Councilman Demian here. Councilman Janopoulos here. Councilman Gensky here. Council President here. We stand for the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands.
One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please stay standing for a moment of silence. You may be seated. I know on the agenda there is nothing for proclamations, honors and presentations, but there is one
presentation which is from CDM to give us his report. So you come up. Thank you on behalf of Cydney and Smith. Um so the report is uh very good in terms of the
design of the project. We completed the most difficult part of the design which was the test bits. Um it was um always disruptive. We try our best to complete all the patching. Uh the contractor is on on watch for 90 days where they will
have to come and do any work as necessary. We completed the work on July 7th. We were Friday on the 8th and the 9th with our field uh crew. We didn't find any defective uh test locations,
but if you find any, let us know. They have 24 hours to come and fix it until it's resolved. Um continue with that. The survey is a way of going. We finish all the u traditional surveying methods. uh
valves, items, curb stops, all that was picked in the survey. Now we're doing the scan machine that comes in and kind of take a picture of the road and then we do the validation verification of that. We're using um invaluable information from the water department uh
in order to establish the connectivity of the network. So we have uh contacted Mike Art on anything that we need in terms of that. permit application. We are probably two weeks away from submitting the water
main extension application which is the first step to determine um the permit is the one that is going to take the longest and the review from D. Uh we're still waiting um on the
earmarks from different funding sources uh to complete that and include that in our environmental assessment report where we talk about the financing of the project itself. Um that's all I have for you guys. if you have any questions or want to
discuss anything. I appreciate you. Thank you. If you may excuse me, we're going to go to an agenda session. We only have one second reading. Andrew, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh second reading
for 202522. This is the second reading of the ordinance for the redevelopment advisory committee uh council. What you have in front of you is you have a potential amendment to said ordinance. The amendment is not substantial. Therefore, we can proceed with second reading. But
for everybody's information, the amendment goes to 22-15.4 duties. Uh if you if you look at the ordinance in front of you, it just amends some of the wording of subsection A, B, and C. Um, again, like I said,
none of this is substantial, so you can proceed with second reading. If you want to accept it with the amendments, what the procedure that we're going to have to follow is that I would need a a motion to accept it with the amendment uh with the amendments, a second, and a
a call, and then move the ordinance as amended. Okay. So, I'll make a motion. 42 42 amendment read 2025-22 ordinance 202522 an ordinance of the burrow of South River County of Middle
Sex state of New Jersey amending the burough code the burrow of South River so as to amend chapter 22 entitled boards commissions and authorities motion to read the full read second motion by council member Kashinsky second by council president all in favor
I make a motion to accept accept the amendments. Second motion by council, seconded by councilwoman. Counciloman, yes. Councilman Santis, yes. Councilman Demian, yes. Councilman Richensky, yes. Council President Sila,
yes. Like to open this to the public. Five minutes. Please state your name and address. Good evening. I'm with 30 daily street here in South River. Um, now I'm getting a little idea. This is for
redevelopment. So like it's going on down main street. This is not something that requires land the land use. Okay. The other thing I can say is that when you meet with these people who they
are, don't go in there empty-handed or without ammunition. You need your attorney to be there. You need your architect or your planner and your engineer to be there so they can give you some guidance. I did I'm assuming everybody got my email, my suggestions
on how to clarify and to make it better. consuming from this that didn't float didn't float so well. But don't go in there emptyhanded as far as arming yourself. I've seen too many times where we don't have the right people there and
the wrong decisions are made and the taxpayers are the ones working out. So that's the biggest thing warning you about is make sure you have those professionals there. That's why they're part of the burrow. And if you don't
have them, you're doing a disservice to the people of this town. So bear that in mind. That's all. Appreciate it. Thank you. Anyone else for the public? First call. Second call.
Motion to close public. Second. Motion by council president. Second by councilman. All in favor? I council discussion. Anyone? We have a motion. Make a motion to adopt 2025-22.
Second. Motion by council president. Second by councilman Kosinsky. Counciloman Ballas. Yes. Councilman DeSantis. Yes. Councilman Deian. Yes. Council Gensky. Yes. Council President Sula. Yes. All right. We're going to go to reports. Bruce.
Thank you. Good evening everyone. The 2023 and 2024 road improvement projects which are DOT funded are done. We'll be compiling a punch list and also then inviting the DOT to perform their inspections. The 2023 local a
transportation project grant that documents that are at the DOT for review and comment. The 2025 local a program project. He authorized us at the last meeting and we're beginning work on that. The substation on your agenda
tonight is a resolution for us to put together uh the bid documents. Get that out the bid so that the next round of that can be performed. Nothing new on the storm water assistance grant and municipal aid applications. We submitted the
application on June 25th for Mercer Street, Lion Street, and Mitchell Avenue. Council, anything for Thank you. Thank you, Joe. A couple items. First thing is the borrow prescription plan was up for
renewal at June 30th and the third party risk manager went out to b the plan and the best that came back with 19.75% from the current carrier. The other one was horizon at 30% and a third one refused to bid on it. So, we're stuck with another 19.75%.
If anyone read, the state of Jersey is looking to increase health. It's actually like 36%. So insurance is the biggest driver in municipal budget right now. U remember we did the bond ordinance a couple meetings ago. So in this agenda you have purchase of a soul shed leaf vacuum machine and two trucks
for DPW under a co-op. Uh we also have purchase of computers under state contract. And we also are purchasing cameras down park that's through an ATD grant that we have funding in. Uh we're also on here we have a resolution to apply for $70,000 for a granted
volunteer park. We got the $750,000 grant already. This is going to try to offset our local costs if we get the $70,000 grant. Another resolution is extending the grace period for third quarter taxes to August 25th. The state took a lot longer this year to sign off on the budget and provide the county
with permission to certify rates. So therefore, we have to delay our mailing tax bills. The last one is we're hiring two people, full-time administrative assistants and utilities and a part-time meter reader. These are both replacement hires. That's it.
Council, anything for Yes, sir. So, the county uh started delivering the new recycling cans today. They started on the south end of town. They'll be out there tomorrow again and possibly the next day finish the town.
The uh pickup does not start until August 1st. So that would be the Friday the south end of town are to use the new cans and if you get picked up on Thursday the 31st you're still to use the old cans. Okay. We're going to send
the nixel out. It'll be on the website and on Facebook. Hopefully it comes up it works out. Thank you. Fire chief went out on call. Andrea, I have nothing tonight. Melissa,
nothing tonight. Park, mayor, just a couple things. Um, I believe a we've completed the sewer repair on Whitehead Avenue. Correct. Today that was a collapse and the valve replacement on Jackson Street. And on the resolutions,
um 229 is appointing the new operator for the water treatment plant. As you know, our previous operator um sold his business to the other company and the other company decided to
terminate his employment. Um, so we went out and hired a uh management company similar to what he was to run the plant and 230 is hiring the old water treatment operator to get them familiar
with the operation of the plant and to take care of some of the D issues that we have. Uh 231 232 is um we're going to be putting up the
spare fire truck for sale um for auction and that gives us the uh authorization to do that. We will be advertising in the newspaper when the auction is the certain times and dates.
That's all I have. All right, we're going to move to council comments. Yes. For the board of education, their next public meeting is Thursday, July 24th at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. from the recreation advisory board.
Update. Registration is open for poper football and cheer, football ages 5 to 13, and cheer ages 3 through 14, age as of July 31st. The football conditioning workouts will start tomorrow, July 22nd at 6 p.m. at the high school practice
field. Anyone interested can attend and meet the coaches and ask questions. The cheer program will start Monday, August 11th, and practices will be held at the high school track. We're also trying to have a 10U fall baseball team and registration is open with a start
date in mid August. You can visit the Burough website for more details. And to register, go to www.sournj.org, click departments, then parks and recreation, and you'll see a link to enroll. And if any issues online, you can call the office at 732254412.
The end of summer fireworks will be Friday, August 22nd with a rain date of Saturday, August 23rd. Festivities will be held in the primary school parking lot near Denny Stadium, starting at 6:30 p.m. with fireworks going off after dark. The next recreation advisory board
meeting will be next t uh will be Tuesday, September 9th at 6:30 p.m. at 55 Reed Street. Residents are welcome and encouraged to attend. That's all I have. Thank you, Councilman. Hi, sorry.
Um, this past winter I volunteered to help with the rec department with the fundamentals basketball program. Um, I enjoyed it and asked Terry from the rec department if we could do this in the summer which she set up and for the past two Saturdays we had a good group of
kids ages four to six years old and work with them with their parents showing them basketball some basketball fundamentals um at Leonard Park. This Saturday will be the last one. And the kids had a great time. The parents had a great time. Love it. And it was a great
thing to utilize the park which is really nice with the renovated basketball courts and playground. Uh working with Adam who maintains the Burl's website. Updates to the project blog um tab were recently done. This was created to give the residents updates to
current projects. And the new air conditioner was recently installed at the historical society museum building and is working great and they are very very happy and they thank you for everything getting this done. Um
that's all I have. Thank you council woman. Tomorrow I'll be attending the board uh library board meeting and I continue to tell you to go to their website. I just can't imagine they have so many programs there. They're planting and now
they're spider watching which that's amazing. Um but um just for the kids, the adults, everything they're doing there is just really amazing. So even some of their stuff for us there too. We'll have to go to a couple of their
events that all councilins. Uh the office on a Thank you, Mayor. The Office on Aging did not put out their schedule yet for August and uh all I can do is tell you to check the website if there's any events that
you want to and sign up early. Aside from that, that's all I have there. Thank you, Council President. Hey, Mayor. Um EDC met last week. Um got a lot of good ideas of trying to get out to the businesses. They're going to be meeting again in the fall with their get
together and there is a new coffee shop opening up on Whitehead Avenue. Let's go ahead. Thank you. Are you going to open it to the public? Five minutes. Say your name, your address, please. To stand up.
Okay. For all of you who don't know me, my name is Regina. I own love cat rescue on white pet avenue. I'd like to explain a couple of things that we've done very well in this town since coming here. Since 2001, we have given out over 300 cases of food to
residents who need it. The alternative is they surrender their animals. I don't want their animals. I get food from a partner in Newark. I bring it down and give it up. We've had over 100 bags of food that we've given out.
We have filled the police cruiser one time with food for the pantry. We participate every year to supply local children with school supplies. We take tags off the Christmas tree and purchase everything for those children in need.
We have paid for multiple euthanas in this town for cats that get hit by cars just tossed in the street. This is kind of what we do and we try to help. Right.
We've successfully had over 200 cats and kittens adopted since 2021 since we think it's pretty good. However, saying the good things come with the bad. And just in June, the calls for surreners in this town are just
astronomical. They just don't want their cats. They threaten me. Why can't you come pick them up? Can you come and euthanize them because I can't afford to euthanize them? I'm not doing that. I don't I don't euthanize. I'm not a doctor. I'm a
volunteer like a third volunteers. feral cats that are found. I can't help. They're feral cats. They're not adoptable. They are allowed to be outside if they're ear tipped. I have supplied money for people to do TNR.
They can't take them there to get TNR. I can't trap them. I don't have people going there. When I have people coming in to volunteer during the day and it's an afternoon, I'm not getting young kids. I'm getting older women. They're not sitting outside in somebody's
backyard with a trap trying to get a cat, right? Found kittens are just everywhere. People in this town feed cats and feed cats and feed cats and they never fix them. So, all you're doing is giving them energy to have sex and they're all
getting knocked up. Then they call me and they want me to take care of the problem. I can't do it. I work on donations only. So, someone coming in and I'm grateful for six cans of cat food isn't going to help me TNR with
$2,000 worth of TNR that needs to be done. Right. So, I am, you know, I'm just beside myself. I'm working 10 hours a day to find grants and people that can help me and donations. And,
you know, even a great example is is Sean Herman. He was one of my volunteers since the beginning. And when he passed, I felt it was the right thing to do. And I took four of his cats because at his weight, his brothers asked me if I can take all of them. And I couldn't, but I
took four. And if anybody knows, Sean knows he took the broken ones. So, I got a 15year-old cat. I got a completely blind cat. I got a cat with three legs that's on phenibarbatital, which is a controlled substance. I look like a drug dealer trying to get out the cat and
this is this is a cost to me. But this is what we do and I can't do it without help here. I can't do it without you know if someone loses a cat in this town. It's never on the police.
You find dogs all the time and they're whose dog is this? Look who we found this really cute dog. and someone loses a cat and I can't get anybody to to put that on a police ve and the police department can't send every call to me. You guys have to have your animal control officer help.
I'm confused. Why are they sending you calls? Because if somebody says I have kittens in my in my yard or I want these kittens out of here. Someone moved and left their cats behind. They tell me they called the police department. The police department tells them to call me.
I'm only o I'm only approved for seven to nine cats at one time. I have a waiting list now and it's just it's overwhelming. I need some kind of help. I'm going to reach out to the police department. I don't know why they're calling you. Uh last
week I just happened to go down to the Moth County SPCA. Um had a very nest discussion with the commissioner down there. So we're working something out with TMR as well as their shelter program. Um, I didn't know this was going on. So, if you could
give me at least a week or so by the time we get across the police department. It It's just it's it's that bad that I haven't signed my lease yet because I don't know if I can do this for another, you know, I've had I've talked to you about the call I got on Christmas Eve.
I remember what you told me. Right. That was that was beyond horrendous, right? That call. And you know, and just on a just on a side note, I'm doing the best I can here. I have a broken shoulder. I
parked in front of the the shelter, but I was a little on the corner. And I put a sign in my car that says, "I am just emptying my car into the rescue. Please don't give me a ticket." Because it takes me like six times. I had 600 lb of litter in my car that I had to get in
there. He stood there. He gave me a ticket or he was writing the ticket. I went outside and I said, "You couldn't have walked 10 feet and just knocked on the window and maybe helped me." Did you even do me a favor? Reach out to me privately.
I I just That's very frustrating to me. I'm just trying to do I don't know what exactly help with your ticket. I paid the ticket. It's It's not worth it. I paid the ticket, but I need to look into that. A little common courtesy for me, I think. Well, help me. Say, what do you need help with if you're acting a card?
Thank you. Anyone else from the public, please sub. Um, I've been uh in touch with about the battery project asking for some information. those plans where you have to set plans
out to do that project that you would imagine. We have a contract with private company to do the battery project. So we have the additional power we need during the high usage times during the summer.
And I assume from what I see all the agreements, we pay a lot of money every month to the tune of the newest ones over $800,000 a year to this company
and I asked for the maps and instead of giving me the you know providing the maps to me I'm told that uh building plans are not public documents under Oprah. Now I've got the application here. That's
municipal application says nothing to that effect. So if you don't have the plans, I appreciate if you say we don't have the plans. But that leads into a lot of other questions. How can you execute the agreement that you have with the
contractor about reviews and approvals if you don't know what the heck is out there? Something's wrong. I don't know what it is, but something's wrong. I also ask for uh mapping. Got no mapping. That's up to the contractor to do it. You have
an agreement with the contractor. So you you're on behalf of the town's people, you've agreed to do certain things to get certain results back, which is a profit and you said that you have gotten the profit. The tune $600,000 the last time
I I've heard the number which nobody could explain where it went. very disheartening. Now, I ask for, hey, you got to have you got you made $600,000 and you're positive for that. You have to have a listing of your ins
and outs, what you pay towards that project, and what your return is. So, I ask for that information. I get a reply. That information does not exist. What's going on? Is somebody going to walk off with money
like what happened years ago? Now, somebody's either got to straighten this thing out and provide this information. I'm I'm a taxpayer here in South River. Could be any taxpayer that may have asked for it. But I get excuses, lame excuses. And if you don't
have the these this information available, how can you claim we made money? Which may be the reason why no one knows where the heck that $600,000 went. This is not good.
I'm not happy, very disappointed in what what has been going on since I've been coming to meetings and listening to what goes on. This is not what it's all about and it's very frustrating. So please, I'm asking you straighten it
out. Mr. Mayor, if I may. So just clear up a couple of things. initially second battery project which is the over request he's just Mr. Dado just requested. What that entailed was the contractor
putting processing equipment on our property. There are no building plans because they did not need a building permit. We have fully complied with all of our contract obligations and I believe I think Joe can give you a
better status as to that project. We did provide uh Mr. Donado with the survey that we have that was provided by the company as to the over request for the financials. Mr. Donado requested basically an analysis of what the
financials have. We are not required to do this analysis because we did not have a document that said that. We didn't have a document to produce it. And under Oprah, if you have the document, you have to produce it. if he wanted the data behind that document, then he
needed to specify what that data was and we will produce that data for him. Um, so therefore, that's why we did not there was no document that was responsive to his request for a specific type of document. That doesn't mean the data doesn't exist. That doesn't mean
the financials are made up. It just means that the document as he requested is not was not available and that's why he did not receive it. So those are I think those were the basic points that
Mr. D. Well $600,000 is referring to the old project. Correct? Yeah. This is a 2024 document that last year I mentioned it in my class. Where did the money go?
remember the conversation. Yeah, the money is running through the budget and in turn we decreased electric rates last year by 5%. And we also have if you go around town looked at all the roads being done, parks that are being done and if I remember correctly, we did
half of a fire truck with some of the savings two years ago, too. So, it runs through the budget process. The savings runs through the electric budget, transferred over to the current fund, or it's used to decrease electric rates, which it was last year to the tune of 4.86%. Okay. So, you do have the data
4 to600,000. I mentioned for everything that's been going on at the battery project from inception. Is it 2019? You have to be putting money. There's no document that exists. That was Friday. I called the public power association New Jersey director Brian
Ber who's very very good at this because remember too this is we run everything through what's called PJM and this is what reconciles all the burrows accounts. There's like a hundred different accounts that go in and out. If I don't warn you of the day ahead markets and stuff, this is if if anybody in the burrow understands all this
stuff, I'll tell you I wouldn't be the CFO of South. I'd be working somewhere else. So Brian Beta put together a schedule for me late Friday and we're going to put that on the website. So you'll see every single thing going. So there was no document until Friday late when I asked this guy from the BPA and director to do it for us. So every month we'll have him update that of what he
thinks is going to happen for that month. So you'll see that on the website probably tomorrow or Wednesday and then every month we'll adjust it and put another month on there. So you're going basically we're going to know what's going into the project, what's coming out. So the balances here's here's the profit we we
Yeah. So what happens how it works is the year before. So in 2024 if the batter is flipped on correctly and everything operates correctly in 2025 is where the savings are. In the bids that were originally done, the company has to hit four out of five uh peak days. So
they're allowed to miss one. If they don't hit four out of five, they face a penalty as if they hit four out of five. So we know from 2024 whether they hit the peak days or didn't hit the peak days. So we have a schedule now from him, not from me, that tells you how many megawatts we're saving how much the penalty is if they didn't hit the the
mark and what the burl is going to happen. And every single month we'll we'll add to that because it's based on last year's calculations based on what they actually flipped on and saved. So you'll see on the website tomorrow or the next day. Well, why is it why is it taking so long to do that? Because we
see it through the budget process. So, I know what we pay for power every single year. And once the battery starts to work, the power purchasing, which used to be five, $6 million, went down to like 5 million, 4.8 million. So, we see what runs through, like I said, this PJM thing, which has hundreds and hundreds of lines in there. So, that's how we can
tell what we're actually going to pay. Okay. I'm used to a very simple system. You have a project, you have everything that goes into the project. Everything that may come out of the project and the very end it's either it breaks even, you have extra money or you have to budget
more money if you have a shortfall close. That's very simple. It's not something you got to go searching around for. That's why I'm saying you just realize $600,000 you had to have a way to figure that out. I never I know for a fact we spoke about it last year and I mentioned
at three of my meetings. I'm actually looking up all the minor changes. Yeah. I don't know. It was it was mentioned a number of times, but it was never clear what happened to the $600,000. In fact, when we came from one meeting to the next and it was mentioned I got silly looks from the council members
like, "What are you talking about?" No, no, no. That that that doesn't you got to know what you're doing with $600,000. And just so the public knows too with this project, we didn't outlay any money at all. The developer built the batteries, installed the batteries, hooked every single up. There was no
cost to the borrow at all. Alls we can I don't want to change this, but alls we can do is save money for this. There's absolutely if the battery breaks tomorrow, they have to fix it. We have any cost at all. And they're guaranteed in the bid to have to hit four out of five heat days. One of the best. Year one, they didn't hit four out of five. They hit like two or three out of
five. And in penalty, they had to pay the burrow back because they didn't hit the other peaks. So they have a lot of skin in the game, too, because if they don't get it, they pay the burrow. And then also the cost is 75% of the savings comes to the burrow. 25% goes there. So they'll never make up their cost for this battery unless they actually do
what they're supposed to do. Yeah. Well, we're paying we're paying a fee every month for the store to flip it on at the correct time because they have to capture the exact hour. So when it's 95° at 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, the exact hour they have to capture. They have to turn that thing on. You got to
understand the paperwork that I received was just what we were paying at didn't look like anything was coming in. Joe, could you please reach out to him tomorrow and clear this up? Yeah, I'm going to put on the website and then call me or come to town hall if you want. We can go over. It's going to be on the website tomorrow. I have any questions?
Come over. Anyone else from the public? First of all, second motion to close. Sher Garrett Avenue. Um just curious talk about the
energy and storage. At some point are we going to be allowed to have solar panels in this town? You're allowed to have solar panels now. Are we going to Okay, good. So we're allowed to save energy by
in your house. In our house. Yeah. You can't sell it back to the town. cannot sell back to the okay but we can supply the energy for our own home and thereby are we saving anything you're saving a little bit on a kilowatt
okay I think it's from 22 cents to 9 19.7 you get a 9.9 credit on anything that you generate almost half okay um is it beyond the scope of our town to be doing anything about sustainable
energy or renewable energy or is that something that PSG would have to be pursuing that direction of the future that be that be wind power solar and that type of thing. We did a battery
and then we also have a one megawatt generator public works also. But uh okay batteries and like solar stuff all part of they do generation. Yeah. Because we're not buying in the market when the batter is on. So you're saving in the market for
everything distributing to the far. All right. This is a little confusing to me, but you know what? I'll get somebody to explain it to me. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? First call. Second call.
Motion to close the public. Motion by council president. Second by councilinsky. All stand. I have two uh appointments. Both are alternate round alternates. One is for cultural arts and heritage commission. The other one's for land use board. Both
on the same person, which is Caitlyn. Thank you. Um we're going to go to consent resolutions. Melissa, can you please read 2014 to 2045? Whereas resolution 202501 authorizes the royal council to utilize the consent
agenda to adopt various resolutions of a routine and non-controversial nature at one time. Now therefore it is hereby resolved but that the below listed resolutions are hereby adopted by the burough council in whole as if the same were individually acted upon. Consent
resolution is 2025 214 to 2025245. 214 authorizing the requisition of funds for payment to the custodian of the school monies. 215 resolution authorizing the submission for NJ DOT transportation trust fund by CME Associates. 216 authorizing renewal of
prescription plan coverage with Benard Services. 217 authorizing the purchase of a salt shed. 218 approving submission of an application for the age friendly grants program. 219 grant application with the NJ DOT for the improvements to Mercer Street,
Lion Street, and Mitchell Avenue. 220 authorizing conditional appointment of Nicholas Lamarca as a police officer. 221 authorizing conditional appointment of Derek J. Whitaker as a police officer. 222 authorizing conditional appointment
of Joseeppe Ciscans as a police officer. 223 authorizing conditional appointment of David Martinez as a police officer. 224 authorizing conditional appointment of Brianna Das as a police officer. 225 authorizing a refund of an application
and property list through the land use board. 226 purchase of a leaf vacuum machine. 227 purchasing contract with SHI International Corporation for computer equipment and installation. 228 resolution reappointing Alysa Hager as
municipal clerk. 229 authorizing a contract for water resource management. 230 authorizing a contract with ILM services. 231 authorizing the sale of municipal property not needed for public use. 232 authorizing a contract with Garage
Technologies Incorporated for online auction services. 233 promotion of Raphael Vendi to the position of a full-time administrative assistant. 234 authoriz utility refunds. 235 approval of a special events permit
to the BFW for an event that was held on July 20, 2025. 236 authorizing the burough clerk to wave the special event permanent fee for the BFW. 237 accept June 23rd, 2025 regular and executive session minutes. 238 property
tax refunds. 239 authorizing CME Associates to perform engineering services for the Willlet Avenue substation annual maintenance. 240 Extend grace period for the third quarter property taxes. 231 241 sorry
employment of uh Josh Almeita as meter reader. 242 Authorize the bills and claims list. 243 authorizing purchase of a 2025 Ford F350 truck for DF DPW. 244 Authorizing purchase of a 2025 Ford F550
truck for DPW. 245 authorizing the purchase and installation of a camera system for Picassi Park. We have a motion. Motion by council woman. Second. Second by council. Council.
Yes. Council member Santis. Yes. Council. Yes. Council member Gensky. Yes. Yes. The 242 abstain from 25-01101 01544
and 01719. Council comments. Uh, Council Kinsky. Thank you, Mayor. It's been quite warm. Uh, folks, just be careful. Look out for your neighbors. Keep an eye for their everything. They're playing whatever
they can. And it gets cool and so they'll be charging in. And that's all I really have, man. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. I just have I should ask this. How hard would it be to make copies of this and put it down on Washington? Listen, they're at Washington Street.
So, we didn't mention that before. This one is so much more easier to follow than the one they senior building wherever. So, now you know you go to the burrow buildings and pick this up because this gives quite a lot more information.
Um, also again, be careful with the kids. Got be you're dodging the scooters, you're dodging the electric bikes, you're dodging them all. And pay attention to the new stop signs, please. Someone didn't pay attention to one
yesterday. Probably I was stopped or else I would probably lost the whole front of my car. So, just be careful. You have to be much more aware now. Thank you. Yes. I just want to make a special shout
out to recently graduated baseball player Julius Rosado. Uh Julius is one of the best athletes I've ever come through South River. He was named second team all state this year for group two. Is named first team all state all four years. Two-time NJ.com GMC player of the
year. Tube signed hitter of the year. two-time GMC Blue Division Player of the Year and now holds a school record for hits, runs, RBI's, home runs, doubles, triples, stolen bases, and walks and batting average. And he, as of today, he's currently playing in the Future
Star summer league for the New Britain Bees. And tonight, he's participating in their home run derby. And he will continue to represent South River and the state of New Jersey at Ruckers this fall. I spoke to longtime head baseball coach Mike Leapor who was also my head baseball coach and he told me that
whenever he would go to the conference coaches meetings all the rival coaches would mention that they were more impressed with the way Julius conducted himself on the field compared to his talent and his leadership and ability to make his teammates better were off the charts and his parents Ron and Zimma
also epitomized the values of hard work to afford your child every opportunity to reach their maximum potential. Julius will always be a part of South baseball history and his future is bright and I'd like to wish him the best of luck as he takes on the next challenge.
Thank you. Thank you. Um like to extend our thanks to our DPW for all the work that they do, their response time on emergencies. um our fire police and our police
officers who saved a one-year-old from choking. Officers Molina, Dakota, Torres, and Sony. God bless you. It's all I can say. They did a fantastic job. The little guy is
doing well. And again, thank you very much for doing a job above and beyond. So, thank you. All right. Well, be careful with fire pits. We're getting a lot of firefalls with open fire pits.
Starts fires very quickly. So, please keep it contained. Not too long ago, we had electricity power outage. A lot of people were bad mouthing the DPW and their performance and getting electricity up. What a lot of people
don't know is that New Jersey right around 12,000 people without power quite some time. We were out for overnight. Not saying that it could not happen to anybody, but happened to the whole
entire state. It was quite a few. PSG, GS, JCPNL, our DPW guys worked so diligently to get this up and running for you. So we have obviously what we have today, our own electricity.
So when you're sitting there badmouthing them, what you don't realize is not like JCPNL or PSEG, they they'll call you and they'll tell you they'll come out next day, two days from now because they have to worry about the rest of the state. So
age, give them my thanks, please, along with the council flash flood. This was a good one. I was being blamed for a flood. They put me in a bracket of God. The whole entire state somehow was
underwater. Somehow New Jersey turbike was flooded. It was a flash flood warning. State of emergency. When we get them, you got to keep in mind that it's affecting more than just South River. Every other town somehow got affected. Matter of fact, other towns such as
Planefield lost two lives to flash blood. It's not a joke. Keep in mind that when this happens, stay in your house. Don't get in your car. Don't drive around. What? It's four. Four. Now it's up to four. Thank you, sir.
So, please stay in your house when there's flooding. I know it's not easy. We all get it. Somehow everybody gets affected. Um, as council president uh mentioned, there was quite a few officers that helped and saved a one-year-old. Uh, we
are going to have a special meeting in regards of the police officers, honoring them with C certification, cert certificates, certificates, sorry. But at the same time, we are going to uh be promoting quite a few police officers as well as swearing in a new police
officer. As you heard this uh this evening uh we appointed five new police officers. What you don't realize is our roll call was at 32. We just upped it by one. Now it's 33. So we are adding more police officers as we move forward with development as we
move forward with more people coming into this town. Um uh first of all I want to thank helping or Regina for coming in. TR I was going to thank Lissa. She has been remarkable with what she's been doing to
the board of health. 21 cats so far and she's still counting. Just like I said earlier today, we are working on it. I appreciate what you're doing. We're working on helping helping the issue that we have. Uh please drive safely.
Kids are out. Uh we're that we have now scooters, motorized equipment on sidewalks. Uh we are working on some type of ordinance eventually. Can't keep them off the roads because it's also a hazard, but please be aware that they do
come zooming by your driveway. So until we can uh hopefully get an ordinance going, please be aware. I appreciate everything you have done. We are going to have a closed session. It's going to take some time. There's no action after we are done. So you're more than welcome
to leave afterwards. Alyssa 2025- 2046 resolution 2025-246 whereas section 8 of chapter 231 public law 1975 permits the exclusion of the general public from a meeting of the
governing body under certain circumstances and whereas the mayor and council of the burrow of south river are on the opinions that circumstances presently exist that therefore be it is hereby resolved by the mayor and council of the burrow of south river and the county of middle sex the state of New Jersey that
the public be excluded upon the here and after specific subject matter and that such subject matter to be so discussed is as follows. Litigation be further resolved that such record of the above discussion will be made public and confidentiality is no longer required. Burough council of the burough south may or may not take formal action
at the conclusion of the executive session. Motion to go to close. Motion by council member Shinsky. Second by council woman. Council Santis. Yes. Councilman Zenian. Yes. Council member Chensky. Yes. Council president. Yes.