It was my fault, Mr. Mayor. My apologies. No, that's good evening, everybody. Hope everybody had a good summer. Yes. All right. Notice of this meeting is being this meeting is being held in accordance with
the public laws of 1975 chapter 231. An adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a notice sent to Star Ledger, the local source, and posted in the main lobby of Demissible Building and on the town township web website. I
pledge allegiance led by Carl Auster Guard Jr. Commander American Allegian Post 228 to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing. [Music] Chairsman here abroad. Thank you. Roll call. Mayor Yuber. Yes. Deputy Mayor Laer here.
Committeeman Capid here. Committeeman Kaiser present. Committeeman Weber here. Commissions and announcements. All right. Springfield 55 plus residence calendar is out for September. Please get one. Get one.
All right. Uh, and this is very dear to my h heart. Everybody knows 911 ceremony will be in front of town hall Thursday, September 11th at 8:30 in honor of the two residents who have perished at the World Trade Center followed by a wreath
ceremony at the at the garden across the street. And I'd like to see if we can get a few more people here. Uh, all right. Bulk pickup is scheduled for Wednesday, September 17th. All items
must be placed at the curb by Tuesday evening. No construction debris, e-waste, or branches will be collected. Um, and if you put it out a week early, you might get a ticket. I know a lot of
people I've a lot of people have driven around town, a lot of people already putting it out. All right. National Voter Voter Registration Day is Tuesday, September 16th at the Springfield Public Library from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm.
That's ground vote. Uh, French Richards Cemetery signed declarations in gray markings. Saturday, September 13th at 10:00 a.m. Receptions will be after
sign the declarations at the Springfield Hillside Alex. September 13th at 10 10:00 a.m. The next committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday the 25th at 7. And the reason is being
because of holidays. Am I correct? Yes. Okay. I'm just checking to make sure. Attach extend his condolence to the family of Samuel Ferner, 92, who passed away on August 26th. Sam's a longtime resident served in the Army and was a
proud member of the American Legion, Springfield Nights of Columbus, and St. James Apostles Church where he served as an usher. Mayor, there will also be the townwide garage sale Saturday and Sunday, November 13th and 14th before the bulk
pickup. And that will be from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. And and we ask them to register with you or call. They can register on the township website. Website. Okay. All right. Public comment
on agenda items only. Anybody have anything to the public? No, I closed to the public. All right. Um, anybody have anything up here to say? Yeah. Want to recognize uh two
residents, two kids who helped uh uh somebody who's near and dear to the Springfield's family, uh Morin's mom. Uh so we thank them and we thank uh first aid for rendering aid. So, uh, thank you to the two, uh, teens that helped, and I know one of them is going into nursing,
so it's a credit to the town. So, uh, thank you, Alex. Anything? Okay. Administration's report. Administrators. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Couple items. Um, we've been speaking about Duffy's lot.
It floods as everyone, I believe, knows. Uh we were fortunate enough to get some help from Senator Cryan who put us in touch with some people at D. Uh Robbie and I had a conversation with the young lady down there. Uh and we have another
scheduled meeting on this coming week either 15 16th somewhere in there. We sent them down a 26-page report which had pictures included graphs and charts. So, it looks like we have the possibility of some movement on that to
possibly get that either relieved all the way or at least partially fixed so the flooding isn't as bad as it it currently is. We're going to need that lot as it down downtown gets redeveloped. That lot's going to become incredibly important to us. So, I I'm
I'm excited. We actually have some possibility of some movement there. Um, I wanted to point out, I don't know if anybody noticed, Gome sidewalk on Caldwell, they put the sidewalk down and didn't put the pole lighting in. So, they had to take up the sidewalk, put
the pole lighting in. Um, we gave them a permit to open up the sidewalk. We had a $5,000 bond. They had I think Mike gave them 10 or 15 days to do the job. I was there this morning. All the bases are in and the sidewalk is back open. So, we'll
return their bond money accordingly. Um, an update if you if anybody's been past the development at Patriots Way, they're making great progress. The building is up and they're already I saw they had the wrap on it, you know, to to protect
the wood. So, that's that's moving along very quickly. Um, Duffy's if you not Duffy's, I'm sorry. Scotty's the Wayne was in got his demo permit. the the builder. He also disconnected the water, the gas, that type of thing. So, the
utilities have been disconnected. He'll be demoing that in the not too distant future. We've got a we're working on the escrow agreement with him right now to get that taken care of and then the redevelopment agreement. So, that's in the works. Uh we did get Tamar, can you
flip up the buildings? I know again, trust me, this isn't this building here. Uh they're going to replace the brick facing and the windows will be done. I think that's I forget if that's 162 the chiropractor on kind of on the left. So
he's going to replace the brick and the windows will be done over. So that's going to get taken care of very shortly. And then also this past week we had a couple more buildings painted. And again I understand this isn't a home run but at least they look a little cleaner.
Tamar, can you go to the next one? and they painted the next building over to the right that you see was started and they're painting the side of that also which is now done. We're working on the the owner of that those buildings actually not to only clean those up but the back also there's a lot of issues
behind those buildings. So again I know it's not a home run but it's better than we've we've seen in many years. We also have talked to the owner of the building on the corner of Morrison Mountain the white building on the corner. He has agreed to do work on that. We're going
to work with him. He's got to replace the seller doors on the other side on Mountain Avenue are all rusted. So, we told him those have to be replaced immediately before somebody falls. He's agreed to scrape the building and get that cleaned up. We're talking about painting that and trying to at least
dress it up until something more permanent is done. So, again, it takes time, but at least we are we are making progress. Um, I wanted to talk about the crosswalks. Tamar, can you pull up our crosswalk lights? So, these have been
put up. This is Robbie. This is on Wabino and Meiselle. And then the one on Evergreen and South Springfield will be up this week. We had to get the vendor to come in because we got a couple of issues with that location. There's some
telephone polls in the way. I mean, it's just They're not visible depending on which way you're coming. So, we actually need a sign on either side. We got to kind of saw that this morning when I went down. I I I don't know how we missed it, but I I saw the telephone
poll and I saw the sign. I said there's no way you're going to see it from both directions unless you do one on each side, which is what we're doing. Okay. And there was a question I'm kind of jumping a little ahead. There was a question on the flags that Mr. Bartas raised to wave. Uh they were replaced.
How long do they last? We do have new flags. It's not how long they last, it's how soon does somebody steal them. That's right. I don't think they're wearing out. I think they they grow legs and they tend to to get lost somewhere. They're like trophies. Yeah. Somebody's got them hanging in their bedroom or something. I don't
know. Um and then let's talk about paving because I think as everybody sees although it might be frustrating, we are making progress on getting things paved again. Paving was completed on county roads Mars to Clinton South Springfield
between Mountain and Shunpike. Most of the line striping was completed today. I don't know if anybody saw them, but they were out there doing the crosswalks, the line striping. So that was done. Paving continues tomorrow on 9:10. This is Lynen from Wabino to Mars and Lion's Place from Salter to the other end of
Salter. Yeah, the middle section of Lynen from Wabino to Meiselle is being paved by Springfield under a DT grant and that is yet to be determined when we're going to do that. You know, honestly, we're starting to get to a point in the year where the weather's going to start
turning against us. We also have other SCA scheduled paving out to bid. That's Highlands Avenue and Windsor full curb to curb mill and Overlay. Uh, New Jersey DOT state aid project, Diamond Road,
full mill and pave and spot curving, curbing, Lawrence Road, full mill and pave and spot curbing grant application. We did put in the for DPD DPW applied for statewide insurance grant for safety which was approved in the amount of
$9,000. Those funds are used for signage, barricades, that type of thing. So, we at least don't have to pay for them out of the township budget. And I think for the moment that is all unless somebody has a question or a comment. I do um I'm in agreement with you. I I
think that the the painting, while not a perfect solution, I I I have to say that the one building that was initially painted gray first, which is the salon building, yes, came out fantastic. Definitely a professional paint job.
Definitely a major improvement bid. awning uniform. I think one of the issues we have with the the that downtown is that you have a mishmash of of of awnings all around. No uniform
design. Mr. Weber, if I may interrupt you. Sorry. Go ahead. We have a um downtown standards that I have coming to you guys very shortly. So, we're going to we're going to try to make those match because you're right. I
mean, you look at the awnings and they're just they jump out at you. I also would like to add that we're working on a program through the business improvement district to assist businesses that will be doing painting and helping by improving the fronts of their buildings to assist them with a grant program of a certain dollar
amount. Obviously, we'll help out by giving them the money back after they've paid for either the awnings or the signage. So, we're working on that. As a matter of fact, that's on our next board meeting at the end of this month. I wish I could tell you we're getting all new buildings, but it's just it's it's a battle. It's a battle to get
these people in to to try to help us out at all. It's just been tough. You know, certain simple things like the windows cleaned up. You you saw what a difference that made in in that building alone. And even the one at the end where the with where Calderon is, the music uh
studio is, came out fantastic. windows cleaned up, sidewalks pressure washed, just stuff like that makes a huge difference. So, thank you. And committeeman, may I add that with the changes that the administration is working on getting these building owners to do, it makes it easier for us to be
able to get new businesses to come into town, which is obviously the main objective is to make that downtown jump again and have people going down there. So, for the residents, it gives them something to look forward to. As we have these done, we'll be able to get new businesses that are looking. We have constant phone calls of small businesses
that want to open up in the center of town. So, okay. And this is an ongoing project. We're not done with the owners of the buildings downtown. I mean, we're continuing to bring somebody in on a regular basis and try to get the next one. It's just takes time, unfortunately. Yep.
I'd also like the businesses, you know, when you get together and that years ago when the kids used to paint the front of the stores for Halloween, we had a contest and things like that. I like to
go back to things like that. Let the kids, you know, it's washable paint, water paint, whatever it is, and see if we could do something like that. Mayor, I'm 100% with you. Not only doing that, we can also do the scarecrow contest which have been done in many many other towns as well to get the kids involved.
Mhm. We can do that. Also, I forgot to mention schools are open now and we have to drive carefully, especially by the schools. Kids are crossing and I've talked to the police. If you
don't stop for the kids in the street, you will get a ticket. I said I've chief and I had been talking about that and we got that. Another thing I'm trying also is helmets for the kids because kids are driving riding around here
with the motorcycle I ebikes. Not motorcycle, it's ebikes. Yeah, the ebikes. Ebikes and they're dangerous and not many. There's not laws against it, but you have to wear a helmet when you have something. It's It's not even It's adults, too. I I
I wouldn't single out kids. And I I know there's a law that what 17, you don't have to wear a helmet anymore, but when you are taking a motorized scooter home from the train station in the dark, and I know a helmet might not be cool,
but you know what's uncool? Being like paralyzed. And uh listening to this, wear a helmet. The problem you have right now, I think, with the ebikes is I think it goes by speed. speed requires the helmet or not helmet.
I I think anything under anything under seven maybe it's for adults I mean anybody I'm saying sorry yeah for the adults there's different uh like you said types type two type three yeah depending on the speed yeah depending on the speed some of them have to be registered I believe
and the problem is is that this is this is all within within less than a year six this summer is the first time we're seeing a mass influx of ebikes become affordable everything yeah so just, you know, we're working on
it and the police will stop you and give you a warning. Whatever their, you know, your job is, you're going to have to have an ebike squad. [Music] I would have taken that detail to tell you that. I just want you know, I want the parents to realize
about it. I would have taken an ebike detail. Okay. I'm sorry. That means you have to ride in any. Anything else, John? Strong can hose him down. I have nothing. Anybody? Chris. Chris. Nope. Good. Thank you. Okay. Um,
minutes regular and executive meeting. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the regular and executive meeting minutes of July 15th, special meeting minutes of July 23rd, and regular meeting minutes of August 12th, 2025 as emailed.
Second. All in favor? I I We're caught up. Okay. New business. Okay. Uh we have a second reading on ordinance 202517. This ordinance amends the land use
provisions at chapter 35 of the township code. Mr. Mayor like to make a motion to adopt ordinance 2025-17 as read by madame clerk publicized in the local source on September 18th,
2025. Second. All right. Public public get to talk. Open up to the public. Anybody want to talk about it?
We have a quick breakdown from Craig while we're on what is happening. Yeah. This is uh this is a modification of the land use provisions of the code to um allow for in in certain zones just in the two industrial zones um allow for
indoor sports facilities. We don't currently have that defined within our land use code and this is going to help uh in terms of the planning efforts uh for these types of facilities and this is a simple ordinance to add that in there some descriptions of some as well.
The planning board took action yesterday to uh uh to say that it was uh it met the master master plan and and our intentions too. So they they approved it yes that so they're good. They recommended it yesterday. Had a meeting with the uh head of the
soccer club of Springfield today and uh they are incredibly excited for the possibility of an indoor sports complex here in Springfield. So that was uh that'll be very welcome for our soccer players and baseball players as well.
Okay. All right. Forward. Committeeman Weber. Yes. Deputy Mayor Lauer. Yes. Capid. Yes. Committeeman Kaiser. Yes. Mayor Yuber. Yes. All right.
Now, resolutions. Oh, before I go, I also want to thank the soccer organization because people came to me today, walk up to me and said they like the refreshment stand that they put up
there in the middle of the fields. Said it was very it's very nice and that. So, thank you. Soccer. Softball. Softball. Softball. Softball. I apologize. Yeah, there's a big difference. Softball over soccer here. Hold on a second. Hey, resolutions.
Let me know if you want anyone pulled. 2025 2223 224 225 226 227. Pull that one, please. Yes. 228
229 230. 231 232 233 234 235 236
and 237. Mr. Mayor, I would like you I would like to make a motion to approve on consent agenda resolutions 2225. I'm sorry. Resolutions 2025 2222
through 225 226 and resolutions 2025 228 through resolution 2025 237. Second. Committeeman Capid.
Yes. Committeeman Kaiser. Yes. Committeeman Weber. Yes. Deputy Mayor Ler. Yes. Mayor Yuber. Yes. All right. Read 227, please. Resolution 2025 227. This resolution hereby authorizes,
ratifies, and approves an agreement for the limited temporary use of a portion of its facilities for filming purposes. Mr. Mayor, I move uh resolution 2025227
as read by Madame Clerk. Second. Uh Mr. Mr. Mayor, the reason that I uh pulled this particular resolution is um last month I was uh reading an article on New Jersey.com and I inadvertently
forgot to make the request of of you and the township committee last month. Um, there have been a lot of communities around us. I'm sure you've seen uh in in the news and locally perhaps on social media. A lot of films, television shows,
movies being filmed, uh, you know, throughout New Jersey because of a lot of the productions uh, that have been coming in and also locally as close as Union County. Um, and what I wanted to have happen is is us to find out as a
township what we needed to do to be film ready so when these opportunities come along, we could be added to the list. Um, I did not share this or made this public and I and we we've shared this before. Um, there was a couple of
production companies that have approached us in the summertime uh about potentially using parts of our township to film uh and videotape some movies or television shows. Um but most recently,
um as far as this resolution goes, we've had a company come in here, uh and use part of actually this town hall, uh to film part of a production. Um I'm not exactly sure because I don't know the legal ease if I could say what streaming
service it was, but um they came in here and I'm going to have Mr. Bicolo if you can explain a little little bit more about this. Um, we had a company, production company come in here for about a day and a half. Um, use our facilities, use our property. Um, and
with the use of our facilities and property, not only do we get to publicize the great town that we live in, but we also get another revenue stream for towns looking at us being attractive. And I'm saying to myself, and I want to share with you guys, why
not us? You know, there is a lot of things about this town that we enjoy. There's a lot about these things about this town, uh, properties and and and historical sites and things of that nature that people come to this town and say, "This would be a great backdrop for
a scene or scenes in a movie." And that's exactly what happened last week. And I know that there was a little hub on on social media when we made an announcement that a certain area of town had to be restricted. And it's not because we're trying to be cryptic. It's
not because we're trying to hide things. It It's basically for everyone's safety. Just like a police or public safety matter when things happen or we say to stay away around a certain area of town. We're not doing it to be difficult. We're not doing it to be mischievous or
cryptic. We're doing it to be um you know cautious. And uh soon I guess next season hopefully some part of this courtroom will be able to see in a streaming service show. So with all that being said, I think this is a wonderful opportunity to be film ready and I know
Mr. Bicolo, you were you were uh doing research into this and this tonight with this resolution is a great first step hopefully one of many resolutions that we'll pass to can increase the um productivity of of of these types of things happening in our town. Can you
just explain the process of the steps that you're doing and the research that you're doing to become a town that's film ready? What have we done so far and and what does that mean for the township in terms of, you know, income and and and viability? Well, over the past six, eight months,
we've probably had three or four companies actually approach us and we've walked through our buildings showing them the buildings. They look at it, they take photos, they go back and they they talk to, I guess, their people to see if it fits what they're looking for. It's it's kind of a numbers game to be
honest with you. You know, you you got to throw so many out and hope one of them hits. Well, we were fortunate that Netflix contacted us about I don't know 3 4 weeks ago, maybe. They had to be through here half a dozen times. Came back measuring you. You just can't imagine
the detail that they went into measuring the floor space, the ceiling heights, the light, the whole bit. So, they actually contact us and said, "Yeah, we we love the courtroom. we want to use it for a show called Big Mistakes with Dan Levy and Lorie Medcave. So I said we would welcome you. Now what what's it
entail? So it was three days. Thursday was a setup day. And to your point, the reason that we kind of wanted to keep it quiet was just to give you an idea, they brought I believe it was six 26 ft box trucks. They brought two 40ft trailers in. So all of us had to park either in
DMV or somewhere else to leave all of front of town hall open. We still had to do business. Town hall was open on Thursday and Friday. Monday was a cleanup day. They came back and took everything down, but we were very busy. And I'll show you some pictures. We
ended up having about a hundred people here while they were filming. Thursday, as I said, was all day setup. Friday, they filmed and they were here. I don't know what time what time they leave, John. Do you know? It was after midnight. Yeah, they left after midnight. Um, and that was the filming day. So,
but but it was interesting. So, they had 50 they had 50 extras and about 40 or 50 people that were working on the set to get everything ready to go and here doing the actual work. But what was really interesting is, you know, they changed everything as you could see. And
this is the one thing that was really cool. So, they saw the picture and I said, "You can't take it down. It's bolted to the wall, so you got to live with it." So they they tried to contact what they told me is they tried to contact the artist or the artist family and they were not successful. So they
had to cover it up. So what they did is they computergenerated a picture and they brought it in in panels about three or four feet wide. And what they did is they measured from inside to inside. They just come in and
just place them. When you got up to them, you couldn't even see the seams. They were done so well. I asked them if we could have it if they were going to discard it, but they said they may have to do a re-shoot or something. So, they wanted to hold on to it. If they decide
they're going to throw it away, I said we would love to be able to put it in ChiSM or somewhere. So, we're going to see if we can we can get that, but there's going to be other opportunities and we already Craig and I talked about we're already putting an ordinance together so we can do filming the revenue stream. Now, for the three days,
what they paid us was setup day was Thursday. They paid us $2,500 for Thursday. Filming was Friday. They paid us $5,000. And cleanup was Monday. They paid us another 25. So we had 10 grand for basically kind of just staying out of their way. It really wasn't terrible
for us. Did they leave the town Springfield? I'm sorry. Did they leave the town Springfield on I saw on the board and stuff where it would say normally Springfield. Do you know if they left the town? It's a fi fictitious town. I forget what they called it, but it wasn't Glendale.
Glendale or something. Yeah. Saw the flag they had there said I think they should had the mayor in it. I was trying to I was trying to look at the name tag on the thing to see if it said Huber on there. Actually, you were rich, but you were played by someone else. Oh, yeah. What's that say? Does that say Huber up there?
No, it doesn't. They took all of They took all of them off and put the actors in. Gary Sanders. Interesting. So, and again, it's it's, you know, and and I don't know if I should say this or not, but we had another opportunity with
um the school system. I was in touch with um Dr. Goldberg. We had an opportunity to perhaps do something at the exterior of the high school. Um, unfortunately, you know, due to circumstances beyond anyone's control that that wasn't able to happen, but you know, there there are phone calls that
we're getting and there's definitely interest uh here at our in our township and and I think that's just a credit to us. We're going to try to take it full advantage of this as we possibly can. I mean, just and just as a last note before we pass this, they even did
something I I I uh I work in a school in Bergen County. Uh there's another Netflix series with John Ham. Uh I think it's called Friends and Neighbors. And there was a scene where he's walking out of a police station. And it's the Bergen
County Sheriff's Office, which is right next door to my campus. And you can clearly see like I I drive past where they did that scene every day. I mean, it's it's it's kind of cool to be able to see this month later and see a show months later and says, you know, wow, that's that's where I live or that's
where I work or or in this case, that's where I live. And I think that's just a tip of the cap to us in a community and this is something that I really want to try to see if we could take full advantage of. They were in New Providence the week before at Adam's clothing store. They were in Cranford filming. They got a big
studio now in Jersey City, Netflix. So that's why they're becoming more local because it's much easier to work in Jersey. And speaking with the people, they they do a lot in New York, but they said between the parking, the permitting, they said it's just a nightmare. They said this was like a
walk in the park to be able to come here and have parking and, you know, everybody kind of helped out and made sure that they were taken care of and they were able to get in and get out with no problem. They absolutely loved it. So we may see him again. Okay, I'll do a roll call. Committeeman
Capid. Yes. Committee man Kaiser. Yes. Mman Weber. Yes. Deputy Mayor. Deputy Mayor Ler. Mayor, yes. All right. Let's go. Alex's favorite part of the meeting.
Oh, finance. Right. Okay. pay. Uh I'd like to make a motion to pay for payroll and invoices for the period of August 13th, 2025 through September 9th, 2025 in the amount of 10,986,19.36. Second. Committeeman Kaiser.
Yes. Deputy Mayor Laer. Yes. Committeeman Capid. Yes. Committeeman Weber. Yes. Mayor Yuber. Yes. All right. Um correspondence. Am I correct? Yes. Yes. All right. Request to extend the
public comment beyond September 19th regarding the proposed consent order 3M company. All right. Union County public hearing September 10th 6 p.m. funding for senior
citizen and disabled residents transportation program. Information you can call 900865950001. All right. Public comment on any government issue. Sure. Come on up.
State your name, name and address, and spell it for us just to make sure. Hi, John. Could you speak into the microphone, please? Hi. Uh, Jake, can you fix your name, address? Just one second. Just let them fix the
mic because they won't be able to hear you at home. Thank you. Um, my name is Suzanne Lasapio. I'm here on behalf of my husband as well. My home is located to the right of the monstrosity being built.
May I have your address, please? 38 Henshaw Avenue. Thank you. Um, being built at 40 Henshaw A. I'm trying to understand why property owners within 2200 ft did not receive a
form of notice. Um the same as we got from 37 Henshaw and I suppose board of adjustments is in charge of that. No, there was no variances required on it. That's why there was no notices on
40. Nothing. No, nothing at all. I mean, according to what John's saying. Excuse me. Excuse me, Mr. Mayor. Can may I may I make a suggestion? Sure. Could Could we have the resident just say what you wanted to say and then we
can answer all questions afterwards. That way, we can make best use of both time, both people's times. Well, I I know no one really gives a crap, but I'm going to say what I my grievances. You know, today I'm here to express my grievances regarding the home
being constructed at 40 Henchaw A. Due to the size of the home, we will be losing all of our privacy that we once enjoyed in our sun porch, our deck, our backyard. There's no private area anymore. Uh the square feet of this
house is, you know, 3,800 ft. It's intrusive and the cost to our health and our peace has been immeasurable. I also would like to say that I like to exercise at the track, but because of a
few incidents there, I won't go anymore. It's getting dangerous. Just so you know. What's happening? Elaborating in terms of the track. Ma'am, ma'am, do you mind elaborating in terms of the issues on the track?
Yeah, this is something that's noodles. I'm people get aggressive with me there as I'm exercising. Okay. So I won't Were they sports clubs or uh these are just general people who go
to the track and run or whatever? Okay. Um I to be honest with you, I I haven't seen what you're talking about. I will check it out tomorrow. Well, I
apologize. Um and you said there there was nothing. There was no variances required on that house. Met all the setbacks and everything. Yeah. Even with it even with its increased size.
It still met all the setbacks and everything. And again, just for the record, I I am a resident on Henchel Avenue, so I don't know if I should participate or not. I'd like your opinion on I mean, but can I can you just elaborate for us under what circumstances because I I I
would like to know under what circumstances would you have to notify neighbors of a construction project happening in in the in in the neighborhood. If it if it triggered a variance such as
you were too close to the side, too close to the front, the back, you didn't meet the setbacks. if the total coverage on the lot exceeded what's allowed. That particular one did not uh exceed any of those requirements. You're building up.
But again, you have a height. Yes, you have a height requirement also, but they're only going to a second floor and that's it. Correct. And our zoning officer happens to be here tonight also. And I know that was looked at. So there was no there was no variances required. Okay.
I will look at it. What are you What's address? What address are you? I'm 38 Henshaw. And you're all invited to my house to see what I mean. I'll provide cocktails. Are you home? Are you home during your day? I'm sorry. Are you home during your day?
Yes, I am. I'm partially retired. I will come by tomorrow. Miss Miss Sapia, uh would would the installation of a panic button at the track alleviate some safety issues? Because that's something that I spoke
with county parks and wreck about today because it is a county park and it's policed by the county police and a button that would go directly to the county police. Is that something that would alleviate a little bit of concern? I guess I don't really know. So, I don't
have the answers to how you would address that issue. Okay. I actually don't leave my house without my pepper spray on if I'm in a park or whatever. Sure. Do you know what what around was there a time frame? Was it happening the same times or
I've had it happen? I I go at different times and this time it was kind of in the afternoon. Sometimes I'm there in the morning. It could happen anytime, I guess. and and I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable sharing in a
public forum perhaps if you're uncomfortable about the specificity of the incident situations at the can what happened on but I'm saying and maybe our chief is here if you wanted to have a dialogue after
the meeting or or set up a time a phone call to get more specifics on what's going on so you know obviously Deputy Mayor Deputy Mayor Laugher has has talked about a county option. We also have our local police too that
could also, you know, take a report or take take take down what happened and respond accordingly. We had problems in the park. I think before anybody was on this committee but myself and we addressed it and we helped the public. That's why I only if you go
to parks, there's only one hoop in most of the parks, almost all the parks. I can't but we took we took them down and people were screaming why are you taking it we took it down because nobody felt safe right I remember that
you remember that I mean they were guys were changing the bushes guys were cursing at at women but we will I will check it out and we will do what we can okay thank you anyone else from the
Please state your name and address. Bob Yellen, 24 Gail Court. Uh, two things. The night of the paving on Mountain Avenue. Okay. So, the end of the line was at
Tuker that you had to make a left onto Tuker. I was out that night. So in front of me was a New Jersey Transit bus and a tractor trailer. They were both told to make the left on Tuker.
As you go up Tuker, there's no there the next detour sign was past Lions. Mhm. Okay. The New Jersey Transit bus tried to make the right on Lions. Did not make it back and forth. Finally
got out of it. Went continued down further. the tractor trailer tried to make the right on Lion's Avenue with a 53-footer. No, no way. He went up the grass and then he decided to back out and they both went down to
Baltistrol and they stopped there because they were lost. So, I think there was some type of a lack of communication. I think that the tractor trailer should have been stopped all the way back by hillside. Okay. instead of sending them down Mountain
Avenue. I don't think that's ever going to happen again, but there's another paving issue. These tractor trailers cannot go through Little side streets. Well, first night they came down Rose Avenue. The first night they were coming from
Mars Avenue and they ended up coming down Rose, which I'm on Rose. There was a bus there for 10 minutes. I went up and saw the police officer. I said, "We have to redirect a different way." And they did redirect a different way to stop them from coming into it. I
don't know what you're coming the other way. I don't know what happened, but I know Rose Rose was like a New York street with all the things. I do feel bad for you. I went through it, too. Okay. The other thing I wanted to bring up is I noticed I saw on the web web
page that they're going to rip open Calwell Place again to do some type of a culvert drainage whatever. Didn't they have Cwell Place ripped open for the entire summer? PSEG,
right? No, we we actually was repaved. Yeah, but PSEG was in there doing whatever they were doing under the ground for I'll give you an update. And again, this is county. It's not us, unfortunately. Right. They did some test boring last week, right? I saw that.
They closed it up. They're going to come back in two or three weeks. They're digging a 40 by 14t pit. So, that end of Caldwell is going to be hard closed, right? After they get done, they'll cover it with plates, but it's not going to be passable. After that, the county comes
in. And they're going to replace the covert that runs kind of across the street right by Ruby Field. There's that co. So they got to dig up the street and replace that. My guess is we're probably looking at a couple of months for them to do that. Why couldn't Why couldn't they have done this like in the summertime
when they were already working on the street? One would think and that was the plan originally. We tried somehow somewhere it didn't happen, but again that that's the county. I mean they right you know we were we were told that they were going to do it during the summer and
for whatever reason they did not do it. So who pay who pays to pave the street? They do. We're not paying for it. County or PSNG. It's the county top. I don't know who's going to PSCG pays curb to curb right
curb to curb. it'll be repaved. Okay. But again, it would have made more sense to dig it up before it was repaved and in the summer when we didn't have the traffic, right? So, but just so you appreciate kind of, you know, our hands are kind of tied. They kind of tell us what they're going
to do. It's just unfortunately not the other way around. Okay. So, thank you. Your pain, Bob. Hold on one second. I just want to say something. Um, you know, you have no idea how much love I have for you because No, I'm serious because you and I, there are times that
you and I will go back and forth on certain things online for better or for worse. Everything that Alex and I have ever had, you've showed up to to question us on. And I'm going to tell you something. Everybody online who wants to talk all this junk and wants to
just bicker about the complete nonsense. You're the only one that shows up to sit there and question about what's going on and comes to a meeting or you'll find me out or you'll seek me out or you'll seek out you'll seek one of us out and and what's the deal. So, so I got to tell you, thank you for that
because it is proof that, you know, we can have differences or or or whatever or the explanations can be there and you and I are still friends with not without an issue. So, I appreciate you more than you know. I learned one thing in Springfield. I've
been here 30 years. Sometimes there's tremendous issues that should affect everyone in this town. And when it comes to a town meeting, how many people come? This is a lot. So even though it affects them, it
doesn't really affect them. You just you just caught me had a bad day when I had somebody an hour earlier complaining about paving during the day. Then you chirped in with paving during the night and I'm just like, well, why don't you guys come up with a solution and tell us what to do? But I again I
appreciate you more than anything coming here and and and putting that forward because that sounds like that was some kind of traffic issue that should have been handled in some other way. You know what? Unfortunately, Myiselle and Mountain Avenue are both both
roadways to 22 and back and forth. Correct. So they pick up tremendous tractor trailers. There's more tractor trailers now, I think, than there's ever been on the two streets. For whatever reason, they're track going back and forth. That's county road. No jurisdiction, right? The jurisdiction.
I mean, we we we pull over what we can, right? But I mean, it they're county roads and they're meant as tractor trailer passroughs. We've checked it out. At least check it out. 22.
And and just for one clarification, the the closing that's going to be at Codwell is going to be on the Meiselle Cordwell by Ruby. So you will still be able to get to Codwell School going up Trivet or or Correct. All those other avenues are still going to be open.
Yes, Caldwell at the other end will be open and Trivet will be open both sides, north and south. All we're missing is that one way out on Ruby by there. Mhm. We're also going to try to make We've asked them to make an entrance to Ruby above the culvert, cutting through the
fence and the bushes that are there. We've asked them to make a temporary driveway so that anybody that wants to use Ruby will be able to still pull in to Ruby. So, fantastic. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you.
Anyone else from the public? Seeing I'm going to close close the public. What do we got next? Close session. Exact. Okay. This is a resolution for close session. Resolution 9925.
Whereas article six of the open public meetings act provides that a public body may hold a closed second whereas the township committee will during this meeting enter into discussion of the following matters. Attorney client privilege and personnel. Attorney client
privilege potential contract negotiations and potential property acquisition. attorney client privilege and potential contract negotiation, attorney client privilege and potential litigation. Whereas the matters to be
discussed in close session are to remain in the strictest of confidence by all township committee members in furtherance of their fiduciary duties to the township. Now therefore, be it resolved, matters discussed at this meeting will be released to the public
with reasons for discussing and acting upon them in close session no longer exist and we may take action after the executive. So before I make a motion, because Craig will make me make another one, um I do want to make an announcement. So, we
have two drawings that I'm going to place on either table. Um, and they are sketches of the park uh that we're looking at where the old billboard used to be uh on Mountain. Um, and we plan on speaking about it uh on the on on the next
meeting which is the 25th. Uh, so uh we'll publicize that, Jay. We'll publicize that. Um, but since there are there are people here and I want to make an announcement there. Uh, these drawings will be dis displayable or visible at town hall should anybody
want to come see them. Um, I'm sure there will be people who I'm sure there will be people who are interested in seeing them. Um, so, uh, I will display them tonight and, uh, they'll be here all the time and they'll be here all the time and we'll have a more in-depth conversation
with the community that is publicized on the 25th at 7 p.m. that will be incorporated into our uh, township committee meeting. And now I will make the one and only motion to go into exec. Second. All right.
All in favor? I Hey, I get to vote no. Overruled. You're allowed. I could vote no. I want. uh are we ready? I'm ready. Are we?
So, Madame Clerk, Mr. Mayor, I would like to add uh resolution 2025237, 2025 238, 202, 2025 239, and 2025 240 to our agenda.
Second. All in favor? I I are Are you really voting? No. Yeah. No, wait a minute. No. So, we just voted to open. Yes. Okay. Yes, we're not voting on the
actual vote on that. We No, we add to the agenda. Yes. Uh madame clerk, I would like to move resolution 2025, 237, 238,
239, and 240. I will second that. Are we going to resolution 225237 is promoting Daniel Zeser to the rank of police lieutenant.
238 is promoting Keith Christopher. Resolution 239 is a instep promotion for Victoria Deagio and 240 is uh the hiring of Anthony Crutcher Jr. Deputy Mayor Laer.
Yes. Committeeman Weber. Yes. Committeeman Kaiser. Yes. Mayor Yuber. Yes. Um before I adjourn, I just want to say uh that these resolutions are uh
bringing us to our second to last step in the completion of our reorganization table. Uh we have uh one more uh we have one more process which we are which we haven't formally started yet but we will shortly which is for a sergeant spot. Um
but uh these four individuals are credits and will be a credit to the Springfield Police Department. I thank you very much. Ready for adjournment? Yeah. I move to adjurnn. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor?
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